kalpa

[ kuhl-puh ]

/ ˈkʌl pə /

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noun Hinduism.

a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.

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Origin of kalpa

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785–95

Words nearby kalpa

Kalmuck, Kalmykia, Kalmyk Republic, kalon, kalong, kalpa, kalpak, kalpis, kalsomine, Kaluga, Kam

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How to use kalpa in a sentence

In the Puranas creation is a process renewed after each kalpa, or vast mundane period.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1|Andrew Lang
The Purṇa rightly starts in the previous Kalpa, rightly starts the manifestations with the manifestation in the form of the fish.
Avatras|Annie Besant
His birth is supernatural and had he willed it he could have lived until the end of the present Kalpa.
Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3)|Charles Eliot
"There is no god superior to the Arhat," says the Kalpa-sūtra (Stevenson, p. 10).
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, December 1879|Various

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|Various

British Dictionary definitions for kalpa

kalpa

/ (ˈkælpə) /

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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