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कल्प mfn. 1.mf(आ)n. (√ कॢप्), practicable, feasible, possible, [ŚBr. ii, 4, 3, 3]
धर्मस्य कल्पः proper, fit, able, competent, equal to (with gen. loc. , inf. , or ifc. ; e.g. , competent for duty; स्वकर्मणि न कल्पः, not competent for his own work; यदा न शासितुं कल्पः, if he is not able to rule), [BhP.]
कल्प m. m. a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance (= विधि, न्याय), manner of acting, proceeding, practice (esp. that prescribed by the वेदs), [RV. ix, 9, 7] ; [AV. viii, 9, 10; xx, 128, 6-11] ; [MBh.]
प्रथमः कल्पः (, a rule to be observed before any other rule, first duty, [Mn. iii, 147] ; [MBh.] &c.; एतेन कल्पेन, in this way; cf. पशु-क्°, &c.)
the most complete of the six वेदाङ्गs (that which prescribes the ritual and gives rules for ceremonial or sacrificial acts), [MuṇḍUp.] ; [Pāṇ.] &c.
पक्ष one of two cases, one side of an argument, an alternative (= ; cf. विकल्प), [Sarvad.]
investigation, research Comm. on [Sāṃkhyak.]
resolve, determination, [MW.]
(in medic. ) treatment of the sick, manner of curing, [Suśr. ii]
the art of preparing medicine, pharmacy, [Car.]
the doctrine of poisons and antidotes, [Suśr. i]
कल्प n. m. (ifc. ) having the manner or form of anything, similar to, resembling, like but with a degree of inferiority, almost (e.g. अभेद्य-कल्प, almost impenetrable; cf. प्रभात-क्°, मृत-क्°, &c.; according to native grammarians, कल्प so used is an accentless affix [[Pāṇ. 5-3, 67] ], before which a final स् is left unchanged, and final ई and ऊ shortened, [Pāṇ.] ; [Vop.] ; कल्पम्ind., may be also connected with a verb e.g. पचति-कल्पम्, he cooks pretty well, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. 8-1, 57] )
कल्प m. m. a fabulous period of time (a day of ब्रह्मा or one thousand युगs, a period of four thousand, three hundred and twenty millions of years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; a month of ब्रह्मा is supposed to contain thirty such कल्पs; according to the [MBh.] , twelve months of ब्रह्मा constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of ब्रह्मा's are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the श्वेतवाराह-कल्प of the fifty-first; at the end of a कल्प the world is annihilated; hence कल्प is said to be equal to कल्पा-न्त below, [L.] ; with Buddhists the कल्पs are not of equal duration), [VP.] ; [BhP.] ; [Rājat.] &c.
कॢप् N. of मन्त्रs which contain a form of √ , [TS. v] ; [ŚBr. ix]
a kind of dance
N. of the first astrological mansion, [VarBṛS.]
N. of a son of ध्रुव and भ्रमि, [BhP. iv, 10, 1]
of शिव, [MBh. xii, 10368]
the tree of paradise
-तरु = below, [L.]
-भव (with जैनs) a particular abode of deities (cf. and कल्पा-तीत below)
कल्प n. n. a kind of intoxicating liquor (incorrect for कल्य), [L.]
कल्प 2.Nom. Ā. °पायते, to become a कल्प, to appear as long as a कल्प, [Hcar.]
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