kalpan.
/ˈkʌlpə/, /ˈkalpə/, U.S. /ˈkəlpə/ In Hindu cosmology: A great age of the world (see quot. 1834); a day of Brahma; a thousand yugas.
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1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xliv. 287 The Hindoos are taught to believe that at the end of every kalpa, or creation, all things are absorbed in the Deity.
1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Hist. Astron. App. 117 The Bramins at this time chose to select a period of 4,320,000,000 years, which they called a Kalpa.
1899 A. B. Bruce Moral Order of World i. 20 A great Kalpa is the period beginning with the origin of a world and extending beyond its dissolution to the commencement of a new succeeding world.
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