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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.
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.
KAUL: The rice, betelnuts, etc., stuck upon an idol when it is consulted.
KAUL GHÁLNE: To consult a deity by kaul.
KAURAVA: The patronymic of the descendants of Kuru, but usually applied to the sons of Dhritaráshtra.
KAUSTUBHA: Name of a celebrated gem obtained at the churning of the ocean and worn by Vishnu.
KAVANESHWAR: A name of Mahádev.
KÁYA: Body.
KEDÁR: Name of a deity.
KERÁDO: A kind of tree.
KESHAR: Saffron.
KESHAVA: A name of Krishna.
KETU: In astronomy, the ninth of the planets; in mythology, a demon.
KHABITH: An order of ghosts.
KHAD-KHADYA-BESÁDVI: A ceremony performed by exorcists to propitiate their favourite goddesses.
KHADI: Red or green earth.
KHAGACHAR: An order of ghosts roaming in the sky.
KHAIR: Acacia catechu.
KHAIS: A species of water spirits.
KHAJÁDA PANTH: A sect of Hindus.
KHÁKHARA: A kind of tree.
KHÁKHI: A sect of Hindus.
KHAL: The passage in the Shivalinga (phallus of Shiva).
KHANA: A bodice cloth.
KHÁNDE PUJAN: Worship of arms.
KHANDERÁI: A name of the deity Khandoba.
KHANDOBA: Name of a deity.
KHANJIR: A dagger.
KHÁPARI: A kind of cattle disease.
KHÁPRYA: An order of ghosts.
KHÁRAVA: A disease of cattle in which the hoofs are affected.
KHÁRVA: A caste of fishermen and sailors or an individual of it.
KHÁRVI: See Khárva.
KHATRI: A caste of weavers.
KHAVÁS: A caste of Hindus.
KHAVIS: An order of ghosts.
KHETALO: Name of a snake deity.
KHETRVA: A field.
KHEM: An order of ghosts.
KHICHADI: A preparation of rice and pulse cooked together.
KHIJADIO: The Shami tree, Prosopis spicigera.
KHIJADO: See Khijadio.
KHIJADO MÁMO: An order of ghosts.
KHILI: A peg.
KHIR: Rice cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar.
KHIT KHIT: Notes of the Pingla bird.
KHODIÁR MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
KHODO: Lame.
KHODO MÁMO: Name of a minor deity.
KHOJA: A class of Musalmáns.
KHOKHO: An outdoor game played in the Deccan.
KHUNTINI: An order of ghosts.
KIDI: An ant.
KILBIL: Notes of the Pingla bird.
KINKHÁB: Silk worked with gold and silver flowers, brocade.
KINNARI: An order of semi-divine beings.
KIRÁTA: A fisherman.
KISHORDÁS: A name of Hanumán.
KODRA: Punctured millet.
KOHALA: Pumpkin.
KOKÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOKIL: A cuckoo.
KOKILA VRATA: The festival of cuckoos which is held in the month of Ashádh after a lapse of twenty years.
KOLAMBÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLHÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLI: A primitive tribe of Hindus common in the Bombay Presidency.
KOLO: A jackal.
KOLKÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLU: Cucurbita maxima.
KONDI: A kind of earthen pot.
KONDURI: A preparation of mutton.
KORI: A new garment; an unused earthen jar; a small silver coin.
KOTHALI: Reticule.
KOTWÁL: Name of an untouchable caste of Hindus.
KOYATA: A wood bill.
KRISHNA: The eighth incarnation of Vishnu.
KRITIKA: Name of a constellation.
KRIYA BHAUDÁI: Name of a deity.
KSHATRIYA: The warrior class, the second of the fourfold divisions of Manu.
KSHETRA: A holy place.
KSHETRAPÁL: The guardian spirit of fields; a kind of stone.
KUBER: The lord of wealth, the regent of the north and the king of the Yakshas and Kinnaras.
KUKAD VEL: A kind of creeper.
KUL: A totem; a clan.
KULA-DEVATA: Family deity.
KULADHARMA: A special worship of the family god or goddess of each family.
KULATHI: A kind of corn.
KULERA: A mixture of wheat, oat or rice flour, clarified butter and sugar or molasses.
KULKARNI: A village accountant.
KUMBHA: Aquarius.
KUMBHAKARN: Name of a demon.
KUMBHÁR: A caste of potters.
KUMBHÁRAN: A woman of the Kumbhár caste.
KUMBHAVA: Name of a cattle disease.
KUMBHAVIVÁHA: Marriage with an earthen jar.
KUNBI: A cultivator.
KUND: A pond; a pit; a sacred pool.
KUNDALAN: A kind of magic circle.
KUNDALI: An astrological diagram of the position of planets at any particular time.
KUNDALIA: A name of Hanumán.
KUNDI: A shoe-maker’s earthen pot.
KUNKU: Red powder.
KUNTI: The first wife of Pandu.
KUPOTSARGA: Digging a well for the benefit of the public—and abandoning one’s right of ownership over it.
KURANANDI: Wheat flour lumps used in the ceremony of the Bodan.
KURI: An implement for sowing corn.
KURMI: Name of a water nymph.
KURUKSHETRA: The extensive plain near Delhi, the scene of the great battle between the Kauravas and Pándavas.
KUSHMÁND: An order of demi-gods.
KUSUMBA: The dye prepared from the dried flowers of the Kusumba (Carthamus tinctorius).
KUTRO: A dog.