As a deity name
Name 437 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 706 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 129 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 145 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
कल्प · noun · masculine
विधान । विधि । कृत्य · वेद के प्रधान छह अंगो में से एक । एक प्रकार के वैदिक सूत्र ग्रंथ · प्रताःकाल — Śabdasāgara
कल्प · adj
तुल्य । समान । जसे— ऋषिकल्प । देवकल्प · योग्य (को॰) · उचित (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
कल्प · kalpa · 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) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 842
कल्प · masculine
rule, practice, age; an aeon, the period of a day of Brahmā, 1,000 yugas or 4,320,000,000 years, measuring the duration of the world; an age, era
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कल्प — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-? Sanskrit कॢप् (kḷp) Proto-Indo-European *-os Sanskrit -अ (-a) Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa)lbor. Hindi कल्प Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. kalpa mf(ā)n. (√ kḷp), practicable, feasible, possible, ŚBr. ii, 4, 3, 3
proper, fit, able, competent, equal to (with gen. loc., inf., or ifc.; e.g. dharmasya kalpaḥ, competent for duty; svakarmaṇi na kalpaḥ, not competent for his own work; yadā na śāsituṃ kalpaḥ, if he is not able to rule), BhP.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance (= vidhi, nyāya), manner of acting, proceeding, practice (esp. that prescribed by the Vedas), -
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1. kalpa mf(ā)n. (√ kḷp), practicable, feasible, possible, ŚBr. ii, 4, 3, 3
proper, fit, able, competent, equal to (with gen. loc., inf., or ifc.; e.g. dharmasya kalpaḥ, competent for duty; svakarmaṇi na kalpaḥ, not competent for his own work; yadā na śāsituṃ kalpaḥ, if he is not able to rule), BhP.
kalpa m. a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance (= vidhi, nyāya), manner of acting, proceeding, practice (esp. that prescribed by the Vedas), RV. ix, 9, 7; AV. viii, 9, 10; xx, 128, 6-11; MBh.
(prathamaḥ kalpaḥ, a rule to be observed before any other rule, first duty, Mn. iii, 147; MBh. &c.; etena kalpena, in this way; cf. paśu-k˚, &c.)
the most complete of the six Vedāṅgas (that which prescribes the ritual and gives rules for ceremonial or sacrificial acts), MuṇḍUp.; Pāṇ. &c.
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