Definition of "pralaya" []

• Destruction, apocalypse (noun)
• A period of cosmic inactivity, lasting 4.32 billion years (noun)

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• "-- and therefore in a kind of pralaya; -- at the right moment, to push its development, almost suddenly, along a new line, not parallel to the Atlantean, but _sui generis, _ and to be Aryan"
• "Accordingly, in many traditions, the process of yoga is considered to be the individual enactment of the process of cosmic dissolution pralaya that occurs at the end of every cosmic age."
• "Lokanamabhave is explained by Nilakantha as pralaya-kale."