One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.
aeon, age, period, cosmic period
a unit of cosmic time, equal to one day of Brahma (or one night), or 4,320,000,000 years.
(Skt) An age or vast time cycle.
An age or aeon; a period in cosmic time equaling one day of Brahma or 1,000 "great yugas"--a total of 4,320 million years. Shiva will administer destrcution to the world at the close of the present kalpa.
The period of fourteen manus of 1000 yugas followed by Paralaya
sacred precept, law, ritual, or ordinance; an eon, a fantastically long period of time.
a day and night for Brahma, the Lord of Creation
a day and night of Brahma
an inconceivably long period
an indescribably long time
an unimaginably large unit of time
a single daytime period in the life of Brahma, the creator god
a unit of time so long that ordinary units of time do not apply
An immense period of time equal to one thousand ages (Yugas), hence, "ageless," or "immortal."
(Kalpa in Sanskrit, Kappa in Pali). It is a fabulous period of four hundred and thirty two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of world. It is the period of time between other creation and recreation of a world or universe. The four kalpas of formation, existence, destruction and emptiness as a complete period, is called maha kalpa or great kalpas. Each great kalpa is subdivided into four asamkhyeya-kalpas or kalpas. Each of the four kalpas is subdivided into twenty antara-kalpas, or small kalpas. There are different distinctions and illustrations of kalpas. In general, a small kalpa is represented as 16,800,000 years, a kalpa as 336,000,000 years and a mahakalpa is 1,334,000,000 years.
Periodic manifestations and dissolutions of universes which go on eternally. Great kalpas consist of four asamkhiya kalpas corresponding to childhood, maturity, old age and the death of the universe.
(Sanskrit): an eon; the time period during which the physical universe is formed and destroyed. An unimaginably long period of time.
endlessly long period of time
(Skt.): Lifetime of a universe.
A sequence of one thousand Maha Yugas is called a Kalpa. A kalpa is one day in the life of Brahma, the Creator aspect of the Trimoorthi Trinity. The universe exists during Brahma's day and is dissolved during Brahma's night. See wheel of time for more details.
( Skt.): An eon, an inconceivably vast period of time. In Buddhist cosmology, a complete cycle of a universe consists of four stages: emptiness, formation, duration and destruction.
An immeasurably long epoch, including the creation, duration and dissolution of a universe.
A kalpa is roughly equivalent to the English eon, and it similarly used in Indian thought, representing geologic spans of time. There are numerous reckonings of just how long of a period a kalpa represents. A special type of kalpa is the asaïkhya kalpa, four of which delimit the lifetime of a world in Buddhist cosmology. These four kalpas are period of creation, development, decay, and destruction of the world respectively.
A kalpa is a Sanskrit word meaning an aeon, or a long period of time in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.