Kalpakshetra
Kalpakshetra · kalpa-kshetra, “the field of Kalpa”
Kalpakshetra is a holy land by the Gaṅgā. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that King Kalpasiṃha of the Pramara line built the city of Kalāpa there, and that in Kaliyuga Bhogasiṃha and Kelisiṃha, born of the aṃśa of Bhagavān Vāmana, came to live in it.
Kalpasiṃha’s city
Sūta tells the ṛshis of Naimishāraṇya that Raṅgapāla‘s son Kalpasiṃha had no child. Once he went to the bank of the Gaṅgā to bathe, and there, delighted, 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 in Kalāpa. By the grace of Gaṅgā a son named Gaṅgāsiṃha was born to him.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 1
Gaṅgāsiṃha
In the Third Khaṇḍa, Sūta tells that a king named Gaṅgāsiṃha ruled his kingdom by dharma in Kalpakshetra.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 3, Section 4
Bhogasiṃha and Kelisiṃha
Sūta tells Śaunaka that Bhagavān Vāmana Hari, by the former half of his aṃśa, was born as two divine sons in the house of the brāhmaṇa Kāmaśarmā, who lived on the bank of the Yamunā, from his wife Devahūti. They were named Bhogasiṃha and Kelisiṃha. They conquered the kings born of Vātya and came to Kalpakshetra, and living in the city named Rahaḥkrīḍāvatī, built by Maya, the two strong ones bore the yoke of Kali.
Vyāsa tells Manu that in the second caraṇa of Kali, Bhogasiṃha and Kelisiṃha, arisen from the Vāmana aṃśa, will take up the yoga-mārga, stay in Kalpakshetra, and increase the daitya party.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapters 24–25
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 3, Section 4; Khaṇḍa 4, Chapters 1, 24–25