kálpa mf(A)n. (√ kḷp), practicable, feasible, possible, [ŚBr. ii, 4, 3, 3]
proper, fit, able, competent, equal to (with gen. loc., inf., or ifc.; e.g. dharmasya kalpaḥ, competent for duty; svakarmaṇi na kalpaḥ, not competent for his own work; yadā na śāsituṃ kalpaḥ, if he is not able to rule), [BhP.]
kálpa m. a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance (= vidhi, nyāya), manner of acting, proceeding, practice (esp. that prescribed by the Vedas), [RV. ix, 9, 7]; [AV. viii, 9, 10]; [xx, 128, 6]-[11]; [MBh.]
(prathamaḥ kalpaḥ, a rule to be observed before any other rule, first duty, [Mn. iii, 147]; [MBh.] &c.; etena kalpena, in this way; cf. paśu-k°, &c.)
the most complete of the six Vedāṅgas (that which prescribes the ritual and gives rules for ceremonial or sacrificial acts), [MuṇḍUp.]; [Pāṇ.] &c.
one of two cases, one side of an argument, an alternative (= pakṣa; cf. vikalpa), [Sarvad.]
investigation, research Comm. on [Sāṃkhyak.]
resolve, determination, [MW.]
(in medic.) treatment of the sick, manner of curing, [Suśr. ii]
the art of preparing medicine, pharmacy, [Car.]
the doctrine of poisons and antidotes, [Suśr. i]
kálpa m. (ifc.) having the manner or form of anything, similar to, resembling, like but with a degree of inferiority, almost (e.g. abhedya-kalpa, almost impenetrable; cf. prabhāta-k°, mṛta-k°, &c.; according to native grammarians, so used is an accentless affix [[Pāṇ. v, 3, 67]], before which a final s is left unchanged, and final ī and ū shortened, [Pāṇ.]; [Vop.]; kalpam ind., may be also connected with a verb, e.g. pacati-kalpam, he cooks pretty well, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 57])
kálpa m. a fabulous period of time (a day of Brahmā 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 [MBh.], 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 is said to be equal to kalpānta below, [L.]; with Buddhists the Kalpas are not of equal duration), [VP.]; [BhP.]; [Rājat.] &c.
N. of Mantras which contain a form of √ kḷp, [TS. v]; [ŚBr. ix]
a kind of dance
N. of the first astrological mansion, [VarBṛS.]
N. of a son of Dhruva and Bhrami, [BhP. iv, 10, 1]
of Śiva, [MBh. xii, 10368]
the tree of paradise
= -taru below, [L.]
(with Jainas) a particular abode of deities (cf. -bhava and kalpātīta below)
kálpa n. a kind of intoxicating liquor (incorrect for kalya), [L.]
Nom. Ā. °pāyate, to become a Kalpa, to appear as long as a Kalpa, [Hcar.]