The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1429 page)

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Mah
pralaya
(Skt., ‘great’ + ‘dissolving’). The complete dissolution of a universe at the end of a
kalpa
, when all the
lokas
and everything within them, including
Brahm
, disappear.
Mahapur
a
(‘great pur
a’):
see
PUR
A
.

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