I had no longer that feeling of unutterable loneliness; but felt, rather, that I was less alone, than I had been for kalpas of years.

Ânanda is to reappear on earth as Buddha in another Kalpa.]

"] [Footnote 6: These three predecessors of Sakya-muni were the three Buddhas of the present or Mahâ-bhadra Kalpa, of which he was the fourth, and Maitreya is to be the fifth and last.

The thousand little boys were the thousand Buddhas of this Bhadra-kalpa.

[Footnote 3: Bhadra-kalpa, "the Kalpa of worthies or sages."

[Footnote 3: Bhadra-kalpa, "the Kalpa of worthies or sages."

"This," says Eitel, "is a designation for a Kalpa of stability, so-called because one thousand Buddhas appear in the course of it.

Our present period is a Bhadra-kalpa, and four Buddhas have already appeared.

Ten days beforehand the king grandly caparisons a large elephant, on which he mounts a man who can speak distinctly, and is dressed in royal robes, to beat a large drum, and make the following proclamation: "The Bodhisattva, during three Asankhyeya-kalpas, manifested his activity, and did not spare his own life.

[Footnote 3: A Kalpa, we have seen, denotes a great period of time; a period during which a physical universe is formed and destroyed.

Every Maha-kalpa consists of four Asankhye-yakalpas.

The thousand Buddhas of this Bhadra-kalpa, indeed, will all use the same alms-bowl; and when the bowl has disappeared, the Law of Buddha will go on gradually to be extinguished.

In ancient Kalpas, thou hadst every day gone through ascetic austerities along with us.

The Vaimânika gods are of two orders: (1) the Kalpabhavas, who are born in the heavenly Kalpas; and (2) the Kalpâtîtas, born in the regions above the Kalpas.

The Vaimânika gods are of two orders: (1) the Kalpabhavas, who are born in the heavenly Kalpas; and (2) the Kalpâtîtas, born in the regions above the Kalpas.

(1) The Kalpabhavas again are subdivided into twelve genera who live in the Kalpas after which they are named; viz, 1.

[Footnote 39: A sight of the heavenly wishing-tree, the kalpa or parijata, which grew in Indra's heaven, was believed to make the old young.

The two most celebrated of these trees were the Párijáta and the Kalpa-druma, or tree granting all desires.

KALPA, a Braminical name for the immense period of time which separates one destruction of the world from the next, a day and a night of Brahma.