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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_135952" /> ==
<p> (n.) One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each [[Kalpa]] the world is annihilated. </p>
       
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_47053" /> ==
<p> 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]]). </p>
<p> 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]]). </p>
       
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75498" /> ==
<p> A Braminical name for the immense period of time which separates one destruction of the world from the next, a day and a night of Brahma. </p>
       
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<ref name="term_135952"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/kalpa Kalpa from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_47053"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/kalpa Kalpa from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_47053"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/kalpa Kalpa from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_75498"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/kalpa Kalpa from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 09:57, 15 October 2021

Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

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).

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]

A Braminical name for the immense period of time which separates one destruction of the world from the next, a day and a night of Brahma.

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