Kalāpa, City of Kalpasiṃha

Kalāpa · kalāpa

Devāpi has other meanings too: see all meanings of Devāpi.

Kalāpa is a city on the holy land of Kalpakshetra. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that Kalpasiṃha, son of King Raṅgapāla, had no child. Once he went to the bank of the Gaṅgā to bathe and gave dāna to the dvijātis. Seeing the holy, uninhabited land of Kalpakshetra, he built a city on it with a glad heart. That city became famous on earth as Kalāpa, and he ruled there. By the grace of Gaṅgā a son named Gaṅgāsiṃha was born to him.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 1

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 1