Lexicographical Neighbors of Calpa
Literary usage of Calpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus: In a Series of Letters, in which an by Alexander Hamilton (1820)
"This Purana w«ts written about the same time as the book of Gene* sis; during
the third thousandth year of the world ; consequently, the last calpa was the ..."
2. Library of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1834)
"One calpa is a day with Brahma, and his night is of the same length ; and the
period of his life is 100 of his years. One half of the term of Brahma's life ..."
3. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1808)
"I am afraid the Reviewer has mistaken the sense of the word calpa, ... Hence the
reader may easily see in what light the DEVI calpa, the SU'RYA calpa, ..."
4. Oriental Historical Manuscripts, in the Tamil Language by William Taylor (1835)
"One calpa is a day with Brahma, and " his night is of the same length ; and the
period of his life is 100 of his years. One half " of the term of Brahma's ..."
5. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"One calpa is a day with Brama; and his night is of the same length ; and the
period of his life is 100 of his years, of which one half is expired, ..."
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