Crossword-Solution: KALPAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Ten days beforehand the king grandly caparisons a large elephant, on which he mounts a man who can speak distinctly, and is dressed in royal robes, to beat a large drum, and make the following proclamation:—“The Bodhisattva, during three Asankhyeya-kalpas,(9) manifested his activity, and did not spare his own life.

But the theory of definite epochs, calculated in accordance with the Mexican calendar, of epochs in which things were made and re-made, answers closely to the Indo-Aryan conception of successive kalpas, and can only have been developed after the method of reckoning time had been carried to some perfection.

Probably this theory of a series of kalpas is only one of the devices by which the human mind has tried to cheat itself into the belief that it can conceive a beginning of things.

But they do not know that the universe had already gone through myriads of cycles of Kalpas of formation, existence, destruction, and emptiness.

Since He who is Infinite attained unto the Wisdom Supreme, the long, long ages of ten Kalpas have rolled away.