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Kalpa
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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designates in Hindu chronology the Brahminical period of one day and night, and corresponds to a period of 4,320,000,000 solar sidereal years, or years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world, and, according to many, including even the interval of its annihilation. The Bhavishya- Purana admits of an infinity of kalpas; other Puranas enumerate thirty. A great kalpa comprises not a day, but a life of Brahma. In Vedic literature, kalpa is a Vedanga (q.v.). See Hardy, Manual of Buddhism, p. 1 sq., 7 sq. (See KALPA-SUTRA).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Kalpa'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/k/kalpa.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Kalpa'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/k/kalpa.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
