Kalpavashesham, Kalpāvaśeṣam: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Kalpāvaśeṣam can be transliterated into English as Kalpavasesam or Kalpavashesham, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKalpāvaśeṣam (कल्पावशेषम्).—adv. (= Pali kappāvasesaṃ), more than a kalpa, in the phrase (kalpaṃ) vā…vā (nirdiśet, he might expound) Lalitavistara 436.6; (tiṣṭhet, would last) Divyāvadāna 201.9; 207.1. So Foucaux, apparently supported by Pali Dīghanikāya (Pali) commentary 554.32 (on Dīghanikāya (Pali) ii.103.4) appaṃ vā bhiyyo ti, vutta-vassa-satato (= kappaṃ = āyukappaṃ) atirekaṃ vā, a little more, or in excess of the stated 100 years (the extreme life of a man, which Pali exegesis takes as the meaning of kappaṃ here). So also Tibetan on MPS 15.10 = Divyāvadāna 201.9. But Critical Pali Dictionary and [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] (for) the rest of a kalpa.
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