The real 'kalpa', which now stands in the garden of the god Indra in the first heaven, was one of the fourteen varieties found at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons.

It fell to the share of Indra.

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H.S.] The tree referred to in the text perhaps may be the _Erythrina arborescens_, or coral-tree, which sheds its leaves after the hot weather.
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That is to say, orderlies, or 'chaprasis'.
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