Definitions for kalpa

kalpa kal·pa

Spelling: [kuhl-puh]
IPA: /ˈkʌl pə/

Kalpa is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in kalpa (aaklp).

Definitions for kalpa

noun

  1. a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.

Origin of kalpa

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785-95

Examples for kalpa

kalpa, kal′pa, n. a day of Brahma, a period of 4320 million years.

The thirtieth and last praçna of the great kalpa Sūtra of Āpastamba is a treatise of this class.

The Gṛihya of Āpastamba forms two books (26–27) of his kalpa Sūtra.

Its position, however, within the kalpa Sūtra of its school is not so fixed as in the two previous cases.

Thus, Brahmanic cosmogony usually deals with a period of time called kalpa.

And dressed with care, Ravana looked like the kalpa tree in Indra's garden.

We then directed our flight to Meru where we found out this kalpa tree and our appointed nest in it.

These seas are the three kalpas; we now live in the white kalpa.

He creates anew when he wakes on the morning of the next kalpa.

It forms two (26–27) of the twenty-nine chapters of the kalpa Sūtra belonging to the school of Hiraṇyakeçin.

Word Value for kalpa
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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