Kalpa is the name given to the time span necessary to create the universe. Four billion, three hundred, twenty million, 4,320,000,000 years make one Kalpa according to the ancient
astronomical Vedic calculations of Sirya Siddhanţa.
The time between the initial condensations to the final conflagration of a world system is called Kalpa. Siddharatha Gautam, an Indian sage in the sixth century BC became known as Buddha. He pictured Kalpa beautifully by saying,“Imagine a mountain of the hardest rock, much larger and higher than the highest peaks of the Himalayas. Now suppose a person from Varanasi/Kasha, travels to this mountain once every one hundred
years to touch it with the sheerest silk gauze and then time taken to wear the entire mountain away would be about the length of a Kalpa.” One should not think that the Kalpa period is a utopia.