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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 38, col. 1.
    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).