kalpa

[kuhl-puh]

noun Hinduism.

a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.

Origin of kalpa

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785–95

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Historical Examples of kalpa

These seas are the three Kalpas; we now live in the white Kalpa.
History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea From 1807 to 1810
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He creates anew when he wakes on the morning of the next Kalpa.
Indian Myth and Legend
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Thus, Brahmanic cosmogony usually deals with a period of time called Kalpa.
Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3)
Charles Eliot
Kalpa, kal′pa, n. a day of Brahma, a period of 4320 million years.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
Various
The Gṛihya of Āpastamba forms two books (26–27) of his Kalpa Sūtra.
A History of Sanskrit Literature
Arthur A. MacDonell

British Dictionary definitions for kalpa

kalpa

noun

(in Hindu cosmology) a period in which the universe experiences a cycle of creation and destruction

Word Origin for kalpa

C18: Sanskrit

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