antara-kalpa (1122)

antara-kalpa
Entry 1122, Page 38, Col. 1

(antarakalpa, antara-kalpa)
antara-kalpa¦, m. (= Pali °kappa), internal (sub- division of a) kalpa or aeon, or intermediate kalpa (period between major kalpas). In AbhidhK. iii.181 the var. antaḥkalpa is recorded, along with this; it seems to point to the first definition above, and La Vallée Poussin, ad loc., considers this the only correct definition; there are 80 in a mahākalpa, op. cit. 187 (in Pali 64, CPD). On the other hand Mvy 8281 renders antara-(kalpa) by Tib. bar gyi, intermediate, and similarly śastrāntara-, rogāntara-, durbhikṣāntara-k° 8282--4; these suggest that antara- kalpas are periods of destruction or disaster for people, cf. CPD s.v. °kappa, a (short) intermediate period (of destruction of mankind). CPD recognizes both the above meanings, and this seems provisionally probable. It is often not clear which appears in specific cases; in Gv 325.15 perhaps the second: dvādaśānām antarakalpānām atyayena SP 67.1; prabhāṣate taj jina agradharmān… antarakalpaṣaṣṭim SP 25.8; cf. Dharmas 87 (see s.v. kalpa 4); SP 159.3 ff.; Mmk 295.9 (°paṃ jīvati). In SP 68.10 text manujānam abhyantara-kalpa (= antara°), but prob. read °jān’ apī antara° (see WT).