kalpa

[ kuhl-puh ]

/ ˈkʌl pə /

a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.

Origin of kalpa

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785–95

The thirtieth and last praçna of the great Kalpa Sūtra of Āpastamba is a treatise of this class.

A History of Sanskrit Literature |Arthur A. MacDonell
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
Its position, however, within the Kalpa Sūtra of its school is not so fixed as in the two previous cases.

A History of Sanskrit Literature |Arthur A. MacDonell
It forms two (26–27) of the twenty-nine chapters of the Kalpa Sūtra belonging to the school of Hiraṇyakeçin.

A History of Sanskrit Literature |Arthur A. MacDonell

He creates anew when he wakes on the morning of the next Kalpa.

Indian Myth and Legend |Donald Alexander Mackenzie

kalpa

/ (ˈkælpə) /

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

C18: Sanskrit