Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—KonkanJackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)
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Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan
Jackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)
Folklore -- India
KABAR: A tomb raised over the grave of a Muhammadan saint.
KABIR: Name of a celebrated saint.
KACHA: The son of Brihaspati, the preceptor of gods.
KACHAKADA: A kind of bead.
KACHARO: Refuse.
KACHBI: Rainbow.
KÁCHHIA: A caste of vegetable sellers.
KADADAN: Legumes.
KADALIPUJAN: Plantain tree worship.
KADAMB: Anthocephalus cadamba.
KADVI: Bitter.
KADAVO: Bitter.
KADULIMB: Melia Azadirachta.
KÁFRI: An order of ghosts.
KÁGDO: A crow.
KÁGRÁSHIA: An expounder of the utterances of crows.
KÁGVA: Cooked food offered to the manes.
KAITABHA: Name of a demon.
KÁJAL: Collyrium.
KÁJRA: A kind of tree.
KAKADI: A cucumber.
KÁKBHUSHUNDI: Name of a sage.
KALASH: A jar.
KALASHI: A weight of corn.
KÁLANEMI: Name of a demon.
KALASIO: A bowl.
KÁLI: Name of a goddess.
KÁLIKA: Name of a goddess.
KÁLKÁICHE BHUT: An order of ghosts.
KÁLI CHAUDAS: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Ashvin.
KALINGI: Daughter of the king of the Kalingas.
KÁLI PARAJ: A name applied collectively to the aboriginal tribes
of Gujarát.
KÁLIYA NÁG: Name of a mythological snake.
KÁLI YUGA: The fourth age of the world according to the Hindu
scriptures.
KÁLO: Black.
KÁLO VA: Name of a cattle disease.
KALPAVRIKSHA: A fabulous tree granting all desires.
KÁL BHAIRAV: A name of Mahádev.
KÁL PURUSHA: The god of death.
KÁLUBÁI: Name of a minor goddess.
KALYÁN: Welfare.
KÁMA DHENU: A heavenly cow granting all desires.
KAMALA HOLI: The fourteenth day of the bright half of Fálgun.
KÁMAN: A kind of black art of bewitching a person.
KAMANDALU: A gourd.
KÁMDEV MAHÁDEV: A name of Mahádev.
KAMOD: A kind of rice.
KANAKNÁTH: A name of Mahádev.
KANKOTRI: Red powder.
KÁNOBA: Name of a minor deity.
KANSA: King of Mathura, maternal uncle of Krishna.
KANSÁR: Coarse wheat flour cooked in water or ghi and sweetened with
molasses or sugar.
KANYA: A girl; Virgo.
KAPHAN: The cloth in which a corpse is wrapped.
KAPIL: Name of a sage.
KAPILÁSHASTHI: A day on which synchronize six particulars--the
day, Tuesday; the month, Bhádrapad; the date, the sixth of the dark
fortnight; the Nakshatra, Rohini; the Yog, Vyatipát; the Mahánakshatra,
Hasti.
KAPILASHETE: See Kapiláshasthi.
KARAN: A kind of tree.
KARHÁDA: A caste of Bráhmans found in the Deccan.
KARKA: Cancer.
KARKATA: Name of a water nymph.
KARKATI: See Karkata.
KARKOTAK: Name of a snake.
KARMAMÁRGA: The path of action.
KÁRTIK: The eighth month of the Deccani Hindu and the first month of
the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
KÁRTIKEY: Son of Shiva, the commander of the army of the gods.
KÁSADA: A kind of sacred grass.
KASÁI: A butcher.
KASATIA: Name of a god.
KASATIA-GÁNTH: Tying the knot of Kasatia, a vow observed in the name
of the god Kasatia.
KÁSHI: Benares.
KÁTHAWATI: Name of a tribe.
KATHEKARI: A narrator of the legends of the gods.
KÁTHI: Name of a tribe.
KÁTKARI: Name of a tribe.
KÁTLÁN: A kind of medicinal preparation.
KATYÁR: A dagger.
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