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कल्प kalpa, vulg. kalp, s.m. Sacred precept, rule, law, ordinance; rite, ceremony; performance, manner of acting, practice prescribed by the Vedas; the most complete of the six Vedāngas (comprehending the description of religious rites); a śāstra or sacred book of the Hindūs;—a resolve, resolution, determination, purpose; propriety, fitness; optionality, alternative; doubt; toxicology;—a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahma or 1000 yugas, a period of 4,320,000,000 years (measuring the duration of the world); the duration of the world; the destruction of the world;—an epithet of Vishṇu (as containing all the sacred precepts;—nameof one of the trees of Indra's paradise (see kalp-taru and kalpvr̤iksh):—kalpānt (˚pa+an˚), s.m. The end of a kalpa or period of the world's duration, the end of the world:—kalpāntar, s.m. & adv. Another kalp;—in the midst of a kalp; from kalp to kalp:—kalp-taru, s.m., or kalp-latā, s.f., or kalpvr̤iksh, vulg. kalp-br̤iksh, s.m. One of the fabulous plants or trees of Indra's paradise, a tree that grants all desires:—kalpa-kshay, s.m. The final destruction, the end of the world.