The light of a red [165] sunset lasts but a short time, and so does the splendour of a hetaera who gives way to affection.
A hetaera, like an actress, should exhibit an assumed affection in order to get wealth; so forsake this pauper, do not ruin yourself.
And let this one-eyed boy, her brother, remain here near her, in order that she may not be grieved at having to remain alone.
For instance, in a previous kalpa there was in a certain city a gambler, of the name of Kuttanikapata, accomplished in dishonest play.
And dwelling with her, as his head-wife, he shall exercise supreme sovereignty over the Vidyadharas for a kalpa of the gods, after conquering his enemies by my favour.
He shall be emperor of the Vidyadharas for a kalpa of the gods; and she shall be honoured above his other wives.
In a former Kalpa [640] there was a certain Brahman, of the name of Kala.
What is meant, however, is that the great deity does these acts at the beginning of every Kalpa when he recreates the Earth.
This is due to the similarity of every successiveKalpa to every previous one.
In obedience to this command of the Supreme Lord from whose Speech the Rishi Apantaratamas sprang into existence, the latter, in the Kalpa named after the Self-born Manu, distributed and arranged the Vedas.
Hence in this, the present Kalpa too, I am obliged to do the same, for all Kalpas must be similar in respect of the events that transpire in them.
In a sense the destructive forces are evil, but when they destroy the world at the end of a Kalpa the result is not the triumph of evil.
Footnote 726: Six Manvantaras of the present Kalpahave elapsed and we are in the seventh.
Professor Jacobi has edited and translated the Kalpa Sutra, containing a life of the founder of the Jain order; but this can scarcely be older than the 5th century of our era.
Footnote 1: There were twenty-four Buddhas previous to the advent of Gotama, who is the fourth in the present Kalpa or chronological period.
Footnote 3: Bhadra-kalpa, "the Kalpa of worthies or sages.
The Vaikritika Devas and Deva Yonis, known as Elemental in Theosophical language, are created according to their Karma in the previous Kalpa and are subject to gradual evolution during the Kalpa.
He married Bhrami, the daughter of Sisumara, and had two sons by her, Kalpa and Vatsara.
The Kumaric souls of the last Kalpa that went to Jana Loka have to play the most prominent part in the present Kalpa and they are the heroes of our solar system.
The elementals that began life in this Kalpa from the spiritual plane, have hardly any idea of separate existence.
Every kalpa adds to the number of the devoted band.
Sanaka and others being created in Brahma Kalpa only follow the creations in other Kalpas.
Those who did not reach the Manasic state, in the last Kalpa were no acquisitions to the higher planes of Brahmanda, which stand over the three mortal planes, where all experience is to be gathered.
The words Kalpa and Manvantara are carelessly used in Theosophical literature.
The innumerable Monads were created through Manu and the real history of the Kalpa is the history of their evolution.
Creation in Brahma Kalpa is not the same as creation in the succeeding Kalpas.
The highest wisdom of the Kalpa was revealed and the world resounds with all glory to Sri Krishna.
These forms of Avidya were called into being that the forms of the previous Kalpa might be brought into existence, or that the work of creation might be undertaken.
Brihaspati or Jupiter, as the guide of the Devas, has to play a most important part in bringing about the life evolution of the present Kalpa according to the records of the past and the essence or Rasa of all beings.
The germs are transmitted in Man from birth to birth and in the Universe from kalpa to kalpa.
The Varaha Avatara restored the system after the Kalpa Pralaya.
Indeed, the spectacle they presented was that of a couple of beautiful and radiant Kalpa trees or of a couple of Kinsukas rich with their flowery burthens.
Again, in thekalpa in which Dīpaŋkara the Buddha appeared, three other Buddhas appeared also.
After Nārada the Buddha, a hundred thousand world-cycles ago there appeared in one kalpa only one Buddha called Padumuttara.
It forms two (28-29) of the thirty sections of the great Apastamba Kalpa Sutra, or body of aphorisms concerning the performance of sacrifices and the duties of the three upper classes.
The Grihya of Apastamba forms two books (26-27) of his Kalpa Sutra.
Four of these form a very closely connected group, being part of the Kalpa Sutras of four subdivisions of the Taittiriya Cakha, which represented the later sutra schools (charanas) not claiming a special revelation of Veda or Brahmana.
The thirtieth and last pracna of the great Kalpa Sutra of Apastamba is a treatise of this class.
Its position, however, within the Kalpa Sutra of its school is not so fixed as in the two previous cases.
The Craddha-kalpa of Hemadri comprises upwards of 1700 pages in the edition of the Bibliotheca Indica.
It forms two (26-27) of the twenty-nine chapters of the Kalpa Sutra belonging to the school of Hiranyakecin.
The term Kalpa Sutra is used to designate the whole body of Sutras concerned with religion which belonged to a particular Vedic school.
This is called theKalpa of the formation of the universe.
The Kalpaof Emptiness is what the Taoist calls the Path of Emptiness.
Existence' means the Kalpa of Existence that lasts twenty Increases and Decreases.
Taoists merely know that there was one Kalpa of Emptiness before the formation of this present universe, and point out the Emptiness, the Chaos, the primordial Gas, and the rest, naming them as the first or the beginningless.
Destruction' means the Kalpa of Destruction that lasts also twenty Increases and Decreases.
Emptiness' means the Kalpa of Emptiness, during which no beings nor worlds exist.
Lao Tsz, led by his mistaken idea, called the Kalpa of Emptiness the Path; otherwise he did so for the temporary purpose of denouncing worldly desires.
Each kalpa of creation is called a day of Brahma; each kalpa of destruction, a night of Brahma.
By the constant light of our internal spirit, we are kept from the sight of all sorrow and grief; and from our seat on the height of the kalpa tree, we clearly see the course of the world and the changes of time.
They lived a fortnight in the arbour of Suktimat mountain, beset by mandara trees and Kalpa plants; and feasted upon the fruits which they could reach with their hands.
She adorned his person with strings, bracelets and wristlets of flowers, and dressed in a robe of the thin bark of Kalpa tree.
Say, why this kalpa tree which rises higher than all other forests, was not broken down, when all other arbors on earth, were levelled to the ground by the universal tornado.
Take this seat said he, and stretched with his hand a newly shorn rind of the Kalpa tree; this he had plucked with his own hand, nor needed the help of his attendant crows in this gladsome task.
Bhusunda said: When at the end of a kalpa period, the order of the world and laws of nature are broken and dissolved; we are then compelled to forsake our nest as an ungrateful man alienates his best friend.
Chudala then reached her celestial city, resembling the garden of paradise with its Kalpa arbours in full bloom, and its shining turrets waving with flags, hoisted on both sides of its charming paths.
The lord Yama is accustomed to make his penance, at the end of every four yugas (or kalpa age), on account of his greatness in destruction of the creatures of God.
The mind has moreover the power of prolonging a moment to a kalpa age; as of enlarging a minim to a mountain, and of increasing a little to a multitude.
As she was moving onward on the pinions of air, she beheld in the upper sky some Siddhawomen, wearing the thin bark of the kalpa tree and girt with jewels of clustering gems.
What acquisitions does he not make, in whose heart there grows the kalpa tree of desire, and which is not infested by the snakes of ardent desire or dislike (the two cankers of human breast).
All the world is as a ripe fruit in the mouth of death, whose voracious belly is never filled with all its ravages, for millions and millions of kalpa ages.
Whatever is seen here and every where together, with all the moving and unmoving beings which it contains, are all of them perishable, and are extinct at the end of every kalpa age (in which the creator wishes to create a new world).
One country gives every kind of object to the seeker, like a tree that gives all objects to the seeker (Kalpa taru) and also we see in a stone and rows of jewels (that is counting beads) giving fruits like fruitful trees.
All beings at the end of a Kalpa return into my Nature, and again at the beginning of a Kalpa do I send them forth.
The adrishtas of some souls come to maturity in the same state of existence in which the deeds were performed; others become mature in a subsequent state of existence only; and others again do not become mature before a new Kalpa has begun.
And 'All beings at the end of a kalpa return into my Nature, and again, at the beginning of a kalpa, do I send them forth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kalpa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
