Crossword-Solution: KALPA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Kalpa | n. | One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| KALPA | anagram | PALAK |
We have 4 clues for the answer “KALPA”
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| period in Hindu cosmology | 1 answer |
| HINDU age | 2 answers |
| THOUSANDS of years | 8 answers |
| Epoch | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with KALPA (5)
The Chinese term means “outside” or “foreign;”—in Pâli, anna-titthiya,=“those belonging to another school.” (16) These three predecessors of Sâkyamuni were the three Buddhas of the present or Maha-bhadra Kalpa, of which he was the fourth, and Maitreya is to be the fifth and last.
The thousand little boys were the thousand Buddhas of this Bhadra-kalpa.(8) It was by the side of the “Weapons-laid-down” tope that Buddha, having given up the idea of living longer, said to Ananda, “In three months from this I will attain to pavi-nirvâna;” and king Mara(9) had so fascinated and stupefied Ananda, that he was not able to ask Buddha to remain longer in this world.
The thousand Buddhas of this Bhadra-kalpa, indeed, will all use the same alms-bowl; and when the bowl has disappeared, the Law of Buddha will go on gradually to be extinguished.
Kalpa after Kalpa[FN#343] (passes by), life after life (comes on), and the circle of continuous rebirths knows no beginning nor end, and resembles the pulley for drawing water from the well.[FN#344] [FN#343] Kalpa, a mundane cycle, is not reckoned by months and years.
Lao Tsz, led by his mistaken idea, called the Kalpa of Emptiness the Path; otherwise he did so for the temporary purpose of denouncing worldly desires.