कल्प

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• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐl̪.pɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐl̪.pɐ/

कल्प • (kalpa)

1. practicable, feasible, possible
2. proper, fit, able, competent, equal to

कल्प • (kalpa) n

1. a kind of intoxicating liquor

कल्प • (kalpa) m

1. a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance, manner of acting, proceeding, practice (especially that prescribed by the Vedas)

   Synonyms: विधि (vidhi), न्याय (nyāya)

2. prathamaḥ kalpaḥ, a rule to be observed before any other rule, first duty
3. the most complete of the six Vedangas (that which prescribes the ritual and gives rules for ceremonial or sacrificial acts)
4. one of two cases, one side of an argument, an alternative

   Synonyms: पक्ष (pakṣa), विकल्प (vikalpa)

5. investigation, research commentator or commentary on
6. resolve, determination
7. (medicine) treatment of the sick, manner of curing
8. the art of preparing medicine, pharmacy
9. the doctrine of poisons and antidotes
10. having the manner or form of anything, similar to, resembling, like but with a degree of inferiority, almost
11. a fabulous period of time (a day of Brahma or one thousand yugas, a period of four thousand, three hundred and twenty millions of years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world;a month of brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas. According to the Mahabharata, twelve months of brahmā- constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of brahmā-'s are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the śvetavārāha-kalpa-of the fifty-first;at the end of a kalpa- the world is annihilated;hence kalpa-is said to be equal to kalpānta-below ;with Buddhists the kalpas are not of equal duration)
12. name of mantras which contain a form of kḷp
13. a kind of dance
14. name of the first astrological mansion
15. name of a son of dhruva and bhrami
16. the tree of paradise

    Synonym: तरु (taru)

17. a particular abode of deities