search `kalpa' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "kalpa" [1]

a.{a-stem}

1.practicable;

2.proper;

3.strong;

4.able (with a gen., loc., inf. or at the end of comp.)

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meanings of "kalpa" [2]

m.{a-stem}

1.a sacred precept or rule;

2.a prescribed rule;

3.(hence) a proposal;

4.manner of acting (in religious rites);

5.end of the world;

6.a day of brahmaa or 1,000 yugas, being a period of 432 million years of mortals and measuring the duration of the world;

7.medical treatment of the sick;

8.one of the six vedaaGgas;

9.a termination added to nouns and adjectives in the sense of 'a little less than', 'almost like', 'nearly equal to';

10.the doctrine of poisons and antidotes;

11.one of the trees of paradise;

12.vigour

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meanings of "kalpa" [3]

n.{a-stem}

1.a kind of intoxicating liquor

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