kalpa
कल्प kalpaA cosmic aeon, a single day of Brahma, an immense span comprising a thousand cycles of the four yugas.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The kalpa , a single day of the creator Brahma, an almost unthinkable span.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
A thousand of those cycles make one day of Brahmā, a kalpa : 4.32 billion years, close enough to the measured age of the Earth to have made Sagan pause on camera.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
…, Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Jyotisha (astronomy), and Kalpa (ritual procedure), the technical scaffolding that lets the Veda be recited and used correctly.
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
The Tamil Siddhars pursued kāya kalpa , the rejuvenation and renewal of the body, and guarded the secret of muppu , a "universal salt" or fixing agent said to stabilise mercury and confer long life.
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
A thousand mahayugas make one kalpa , a single day in the life of the creator, Brahma.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
…a , notes that the Yama Smriti itself frames the brahmavadini as pura-kalpa , the practice of a former age, and on the smriti hierarchy Manu overrides Harita and Yama.
- The Limbs Treatise
Kalpa , the science of ritual procedure, the manuals that tell a priest what to do and in what order.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
…he Rig-veda, Yagur-veda, Sama-veda, Atharva-veda, Siksha (phonetics), Kalpa (ceremonial), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Khandas (metre), Gyotisha (astronomy); but the higher knowledge is that by whi…