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kalpa

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kalpa /ˈkalpə /
noun (in Hindu and Buddhist tradition) an immense period of time, reckoned as 4,320 million human years, and considered to be the length of a single cycle of the cosmos (or ‘day of Brahma’) from creation to dissolution.
– ORIGIN Sanskrit.