[lang id =1028]刧 A (sa) kalpa, aeon, age; also translit. (sa) ka; 'a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahmā or 1, 000 Yugas, a period of four hundred and thirty-two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; (a month of Brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such (sa) kalpas; according to the Mahābhārata twelve months of Brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of Brahmā are supposed to have elapsed... ).' M. W. An aeon of incalculable time, therefore called a [lang id =1028]大時節 great time-node. v. [lang id =1028]劫波.
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梵語劫簸的簡稱, 譯為時分或大時, 即通常年月日所不能計算的極長時問。

Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.

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