The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.16

c5.s9.16

Kalâpa-grâma.—A village where Maru and Devâpi, the last kings of the Solar and Lunar races respectively performed asceticism to re-appear again as kings of Ayodhyâ and Hastinâpura after the subversions of the Mlechchha kingdoms by Kalki, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu (*Kalki P.*, pt. III, ch. 4). According to the *Mahâbhârata*, (Maushala, ch. 7), *Bhâgavata P.* (X, ch. 87, v. 7), and the *Bṛihat-Nâradîya P.* (Uttara, ch. 66), Kalâpa-grâma appears to have been situated on the Himâlaya near Badarikâśrama. In the *Vâyu P.* (ch. 91), Kalâpa is placed among the Himalayan countries where Urvaśî passed sometime with Purûravâ. According to Capt. Raper, Kalâpa-grâma is near the source of the Sarasvatî, a tributary of the Alakânandâ, in Badrinâth in Garwal (*Asia. Res.*, vol. XI, p. 524).