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[mahākalpa]/ The great aeon. According to Abhidharma tradition, every cycle of eighty small aeons comprises one great aeon. This comes to trillions of human years. A great aeon consists of eighty intermediate aeons divided into twenty aeons of formation, persistence, dissolution and vacuity.
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