Mahakalpa, Mahākalpa, Maha-kalpa: 13 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchMahākalpa (महाकल्प):—[(ma + ka)] m. ein grosser Kalpa, eine grosse Weltperiode [Mahābhārata 13, 5281.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 15, 69. 8, 24, 11.] pādma [Viṣṇupurāṇa 25.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 46, 43] [?(Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 10, 47. 3, 11, 35] einfach kalpa genannt). Bei den Buddhisten [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 190.] [ Kunde des Morgenlandes 4, 502.] [KÖPPEN 1, 267. fgg.] Als Beiw. Śiva’s [Mahābhārata 13, 1239] (= divyabhūṣaṇa Schol.). pañca als Beiw. Viṣṇu’s [Mahābhārata 12, 12864.] pañca mahākalpāḥ sauraśāktagāṇeśaśaivavaiṣṇavāgamāḥ . tatpratipadya (voc.) [Nīlakaṇṭha]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungMahākalpa (महाकल्प):—m. —
1) eine grosse Weltperiode. —
2) Beiw. Śiva's. = divyabhuṣṇa Adj. Comm.
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Starts with: Mahakalpagni, Mahakalparaja, Mahakalpoddaha.
Ends with: Kalaratrimahakalpa, Pancamahakalpa, Pavanarimahakalpa.
Full-text (+9): Kalpa, Asankya-kalpa, Subhakrtsna Worlds, Abhasvara Worlds, Pancamahakalpa, Makakarpam, Naivasamjnanasamjnayatana, Vijnananantyayatana, Akashanantyayatana, Sahasra Cosmology, Four Aeons, Brhatphala Worlds, Akimcanyayatana, Angabahya, Pavanari, Vehapphala, Antah-kalpa, Temporal Cosmology, Asamkhyeya, Manvantara.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 2 - Kalpa and Mahākalpa < [Chapter XLVI - Venerating with the Roots of Good]
Appendix 1 - The damned remain in Avīci hell for one kalpa < [Chapter XIII - The Buddha-fields]
Act 1.6: Definition of trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu < [Chapter XIV - Emission of rays]
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (by K. A. Subramania Iyer)
Verse 3.9.76 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (9): Kāla-samuddeśa (On Time)]
The Markandeya Purana (by Frederick Eden Pargiter)
Canto XLVII - The Creation from Prakṛti and the Vikāras
Yoga Vasistha [English], Volume 1-4 (by Vihari-Lala Mitra)
Chapter II - The receptacle of the mundane egg < [Book IV - Sthiti prakarana (sthiti prakarana)]
Chapter XXXVI - Description of the supreme deity parameswara < [Book VI - Nirvana prakarana part 1 (nirvana prakarana)]
Chapter XXXV - Description of the supreme brahma < [Book VII - Nirvana prakarana part 2 (nirvana prakarana)]
A study of the philosophy of Jainism (by Deepa Baruah)
Chapter I.e - Religious and philosophical literature of the Jainas < [Chapter I - Introduction]
Laghu-yoga-vasistha (by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar)
Part 3 - The Story of the Bilva Fruit < [Chapter VI - Nirvāṇa-prakaraṇa]