kalpa

[ kuhl-puh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Hinduism.

kalpa

/ ˈkælpə /

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

Origin of kalpa¹

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785–95

Origin of kalpa¹

C18: Sanskrit

In the Puranas creation is a process renewed after each kalpa, or vast mundane period.

The Purṇa rightly starts in the previous Kalpa, rightly starts the manifestations with the manifestation in the form of the fish.

His birth is supernatural and had he willed it he could have lived until the end of the present Kalpa.

"There is no god superior to the Arhat," says the Kalpa-sūtra (Stevenson, p. 10).

These seas are the three Kalpas; we now live in the white Kalpa.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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