• Kalpa (Sanskrit: कल्प) means "proper, fit" and is one of the six disciplines of the Vedānga, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures...
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  • studies, arts, culture and various schools of Hindu philosophy. The Kalpa Vedanga studies, for example, gave rise to the Dharma-sutras, which later expanded...
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  • Finnish women's ice hockey team Kalpa (time) a Sanskrit word referring to a great length of time (Aeon) Kalpa (Vedanga), meaning "proper practice" or "ritual"...
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  • A kalpa is a long period of time (aeon) in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, generally between the creation and recreation of a world or universe. Kalpa (Sanskrit:...
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  • Vedanga Jyotisha (IAST: Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa), or Jyotishavedanga (Jyotiṣavedāṅga), is one of earliest known Indian texts on astrology (Jyotisha). The extant...
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    Vedas (section Vedanga)
    Vedanga are phonetics (Śikṣā), poetic meter (Chandas), grammar (Vyākaraṇa), etymology and linguistics (Nirukta), rituals and rites of passage (Kalpa)...
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  • Dharmasutra texts dated to the 1st millennium BCE that emerged from Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era. The textual corpus of Dharmaśāstra were composed...
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  • in Dharmasutra texts dated to 1st millennium BCE that emerged from Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era. Kamashastra (Kama Shastra) Yoga Vasistha...
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  • 12 1st kalpa (Shveta-Varaha Kalpa) of 30 7th manvantara (Vaivasvatha Manu) of 14 28th chatur-yuga of 71 4th yuga (Kali-yuga) of 4 A maha-kalpa is followed...
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  • Classical Hindu law in practice Dharmaśāstra Gentoo Code Hindu law Kalpa (Vedanga) Kalpa Sūtra Vajrasuchi Upanishad Yājñavalkya Smṛti Manusmriti, The Oxford...
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    prosper by sacrifice. — White Yajurveda 18.12, Hindu philosophy Hinduism Kalpa (Vedanga) Mahīdhara Shatapatha Brahmana Vedas Yajna Sandhyavandanam Witzel 2001...
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  • the Shulba Sutras. Wikiquote has quotations related to Shulba Sutras. Kalpa (Vedanga) Plofker (2007), p. 387, "Certain shapes and sizes of fire-altars were...
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    ritual-related sutras based on the śruti. The first versions of the Kalpa (Vedanga) sutras were probably composed by the sixth century BCE, starting about...
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    that ended around 500 BCE.(Hiltebeitel 2013, p. 13) The Vedanga texts include the Kalpa (Vedanga) texts consisting of the Srautasutras, Grihyasutras and...
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    also be celebrated. Hindu genealogy registers at Haridwar Dharmasutras Kalpa (Vedanga) Vedas Dharma Kama Artha Carl Olson (2007), The Many Colors of Hinduism:...
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    Sūtras were aphoristic treatises concerned either with Vedic ritual (Kalpa Vedanga) or customary law. They arrived during the later period of the Brāhmaṇas...
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  • pronunciation (part of Vedāngas). For example, the attempt to perfect the art of rituals led to the science of Kalpa, which branched into three Kalpa-sūtras: Srauta-sūtras...
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    Their tradition is rooted in the pre-Buddhist Apastamba sutras, a kalpa vedanga and the oldest Dharmasutra of ancient India originating plausibly around...
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    indicate the event of the dissolution of the entire universe that follows a kalpa (a period of 4.32 billion years) called the Brahmapralaya. Pralaya also...
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  • Vedic science (category Vedangas)
    Vedic science may refer to: Ayurveda Vedanga, the six ancient disciplines (shastra) subservient to the understanding and tradition of the Vedas Shiksha...
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  • are norm. In Hinduism, time is cyclic, consisting of cycles or "kalpas". Each kalpa lasts for 4.32 billion years and is followed by a pralaya (dissolution)...
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    layer of Vedic literature. They grow in number in the Vedangas, such as the Shrauta Sutras and Kalpa Sutras. These were designed so that they can be easily...
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  • Yantra Wilke, Annette (2011), "Negotiating Tantra and Veda in the Paraśurāma-Kalpa Tradition", Negotiating Rites, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 133–159...
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    Upavedas Ayurveda Dhanurveda Natyaveda Sthapatyaveda Vedanga Shiksha Chandas Vyākaraṇa Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Other Bhagavad Gita Agamas Itihasas Ramayana...
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  • siddhanta: a fundamental treatise; generally uses the beginning of creation of kalpa (aeon) as the epoch of calculation tantra: generally uses the beginning...
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    Upavedas Ayurveda Dhanurveda Natyaveda Sthapatyaveda Vedanga Shiksha Chandas Vyākaraṇa Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Other Bhagavad Gita Agamas Itihasas Ramayana...
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  • scriptures Agamas Bhagavad Gita Tantras Related Hindu texts Vedangas Shiksha Chandas Vyakarana Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Puranas Brahma puranas Brahma Brahmānda Brahmavaivarta...
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  • scriptures Agamas Bhagavad Gita Tantras Related Hindu texts Vedangas Shiksha Chandas Vyakarana Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Puranas Brahma puranas Brahma Brahmānda Brahmavaivarta...
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    or goddess is the secondary creator at the start of each cosmic cycle (kalpa, aeon). Brahma is a "secondary creator" as described in the Mahabharata...
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  • Shiksha (category Vedangas)
    "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill". It also refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies, on phonetics and phonology in Sanskrit. Shiksha...
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