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刧 A kalpa, aeon, age; also translit. ka; ‘a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahmā or 1, 000 Yugas, a period of four hundred and thirty-two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; (a month of Brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas; according to the Mahābhārata twelve months of Brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of Brahmā are supposed to have elapsed… ).’ M. W. An aeon of incalculable time, therefore called a 大時節 great time-node. v. 劫波.