(thing) by Distractor Wed Mar 08 2000 at 4:29:13
A kalpa was once defined for me as:

"Imagine there's a bird with a silk scarf in its mouth. Every year, the bird flies over the top of Mount Sumeru. Each time it flies over, the scarf brushes the top of the mountain.

A kalpa is the amount of time it takes for the mountain to be worn down to nothing."

-- Sei-un An Stone

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:37:34

Kal"pa (?), n. [Skr.] Hind. Myth.

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

 

© Webster 1913.

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