A fixed period of time; = parapegma, n. 1.

A fixed period of time or chronological canon; = parapegm, n. 1. Obsolete.

In Hindu cosmology, any of the four ages in the duration of the world, the four ages comprising 4,320,000 years and constituting a great yuga (Mah…

In Hindu cosmology: A great age of the world (see quot. 1834); a day of Brahma; a thousand yugas.

In Hindu cosmology: each of the fourteen periods or eras, each presided over by a special Manu, which make up a kalpa (kalpa, n.).

The period which precedes a yuga or age of the world.

Also with capital initial(s). In the mythology of some Australian Aboriginal peoples: the sacred time containing the creation of the first ancestors…