kalpa

• And Hindu religious cosmology, which so far is that civilization's only statement on history as such, speaks also of great cycles, first the kalpa which is a day of Brahma, said to be 4,320,000,000 years long, divided into fourteen manvantaras, each of which is divided into seventy-one maha-yugas, length 3,320,000 years. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Trouble Before this kalpa -length toast had even ended, a perky aide was already explaining to a gorging journalist that Daddy had some bullet points under all the nationalist slogans. —  AEonThree
• We learnt the 'vanca kalpa' prayers and made sure to say them to eachother every day. —  WordPress.com News
• This S_râddha, however, is distinguished from the other, the true S_râddha, called Anvâhârya, which follows it,[329] and which is properly known by the name of Pârva_n_a S_râddha The same difficulties which confront us when we try to form a clear conception of the character of the various ancestral ceremonies, were felt by the Brâhmans themselves, as may be seen from the long discussions in the commentary on the S_râddha-kalpa[330] and from the abusive language used by K_andrakânta Tarkâlankâra against Raghunandana. —  India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge
• The duration of each universe is called kalpa_; and this is the way we obtain an impression of a kalpa: if there were a rock twelve miles in height, breadth, and length, and if once in a century it were only touched with a piece of the finest linen, this rock would be worn and reduced to the size of a kernel of mango before a quarter of a kalpa had elapsed Buddha Transformed into a God.=--It no longer satisfied the Buddhists to honor their founder as a perfect man; they made him a god, erecting idols to him, and offering him worship. —  History Of Ancient Civilization

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