Kalpakala, Kalpakāla: 1 definition
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Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKalpakāla (ಕಲ್ಪಕಾಲ):—
1) [noun] a measure of time, as a day of the universe; (myth.) a period of thousand yugas (eras).
2) [noun] (myth.) the Final Deluge, at the final destruction of the universe.
3) [noun] (Jain.) a cycle of duration which includes universal progression and retrogression.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with: Kalpakalate.
Full-text: Manvantara.
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Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 3.27 - The rise (regeneration) and fall (degeneration) < [Chapter 3 - The Lower World and the Middle World]
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)