ā
”
K
ā
ma
Desire, son of Brahm
ā
kāma
Desire
K
ā
mar
ū
pa
Form of desire; ancient name of Assam
K
ā
ñ
c
ī
A city in Tamil Nadu
kapāla
Bowl
Kap
ā
lin
He-who-holds-the-bowl; epithet of
Ś
iva
Kapilavastu
The Buddha’s birthplace; presumably corresponds to Pipr
ā
w
ā
, in Uttar Pradesh
K
ā
rapacava
A bend in the Sarasvat
ī
River
Karko
ṭ
aka
Name of a Snake, son of Kadr
ū
karman
Action; initially, sacrificial action
Kar
ṇ
a
Son of S
ū
rya and Kunt
ī
abandoned at birth, adopted by Adhiratha and R
ā
dh
ā
kārṣāpana
A coin of the Bihar
K
ā
rttika
Month of the K
ṛ
ttik
ā
s, the Pleiades; October — November
kāśā mádhumatī
Honey whip; used by the A
ś
vins
K
ā
ś
ī
The Splendid; ancient name of V
ā
r
ā
ṇ
as
ī
(Benares)
Ka
ś
yapa
Turtle; one of the Saptar
ṣ
is. He always has two wives — either Aditi and Diti or Kadr
ū
and Vinat
ā
Or he marries thirteen of Dak
ṣ
a’s daughters, including Aditi, Diti, Kadr
ū
, and Vinat
ā
Kaṭha Upaniṣad
An upani
ṣ
ad almost entirely in verse; contains the instructions given by Yama to a young brahman, Naciketas
K
ā
ty
ā
yan
ī
Epithet of Durg
ā
, the Inaccessible One; manifestation of Dev
ī
K
ā
ty
ā
yan
ī
Wife of Y
ā
jñavalkya
Kauravas
Descendants of Kuru; the name usually used for the hundred sons of Dh
ṛ
tar
ā
ṣ
ṭ
ra and G
ā
ndh
ā
r
ī
, cousins of the P
ā
ṇ
ḍ
avas
Kau
ś
ik
ī
River in Bihar, frequently called Kosi
Kaustubha
Gem that appeared during the churning of the ocean
kari
Poet
K
ā
vya U
ś
anas
Chief priest of the Asuras
Khy
ā
ti
Daughter of Dak
ṣ
a and V
ī
ri
ṇ
í
Kosala
A principality of the Bihar region
Kratu
Will; a
ṛṣi
of the second list
K
ṛ
ś
ā
Gautam
ī
Companion of the Buddha in his youth; in P
ā
li: Kis
ā
Gotam
ī
Kr
ś
ā
nu
A footless archer, guardian of the
soma
K
ṛ
ṣ
ṇ
a
Black One, Dark One; Obscure One; son of Vasudeva and Devaki, adopted by Nanda and Ya
ś
od
ā
; eighth
avatāra
of vi
ṣ
ṇ
u
K
ṛ
ṣ
ṇ
a
Black One; epithet of Draupad
ī
kṛta
A winning throw when playing dice; a number divisible by four, leaving no remainder; name of the perfect age
krtakrtya
He who has done what must be done
K
ṛ
ttik
ā
s
The Pleiades, the wives of the Saptar
ṣ
is: six of them carry Skanda in their wombs and give birth to him
K
ṣ
am
ā
Daughter of Dak
ṣ
a and V
ī
ri
ṇ
ī
kṣatriya
Warrior; noble; the second of the four castes
Kum
ā
ra
Boy; one of the names of Rudra
kumāraka
Boy
Kumbhayoni
He whose womb was a pot; epithet of Vasi
ṣ
ṭ
ha, born together with Agastya from the sperm simultaneously squirted into a pot by Mitra and Varu
ṇ
a upon seeing Urva
ś
ī
Kunt
ī
Adopted daughter of Kunt
ī
bhoja; mother of Kar
ṇ
a by S
ū
rya; wife of P
ā
ṇ
ḍ
u, mother of Yudhi
ṣ
ṭ
hira by Dharma, Bh
ī
ma by V
ā
yu, and Arjuna by Indra
Kuntibhoja
King of the Kunt
ī
and the Bhoja peoples; adoptive father of Kunt
ī
K
ū
rma
Turtle; second
avatāru
of Vi
ṣ
ṇ
u
Kuruk
ṣ
etra
Field of the Kurus; about a hundred and fifty kilometers north of Delhi; place where the gods made sacrifices; site of the battle between the P
ā
ṇ
ḍ
avas and the Kauravas narrated in the
Mahābhārata
Kuru-Pa
ñ
c
ā
las
Collective name of the Kuru and Pa
ñ
c
ā
la peoples, who settled in the “middle region” (
madhyadeśa
), brahmanic par excellence, in the northwestern part of the Ganges plain. The territory of the Kurus was the Kuruksetra
Kurus
Inhabitants of the Kuru-Pa
ñ
c
ā
la region
Ku
ś
inagara
Capital of the Malla people; in a wood near Ku
ś
inagara the complete extinction (
parinirvāṇa
) of the Buddha took place
Lake of Drops
Bindusaras
lakṣaṇa
Token of perfection; the Buddha has thirty-two
lakṣaṇas
that distinguish his body from those of other beings
Laksm
ī
Consort and
śakti
of Vi
ṣ
ṇ
u
Last
Uttar
ā
Law
Dharina
Laws of Manu
Manusmṛti
; according to tradition, a text in which the
ṛṣi
Bh
ṛ
gu described the institutions of the sacred law as proclaimed by Manu; believed to have been written down between the second century