[Kâla], the Hindu Chronus, or god of time, who, as in the Greek mythology, at once produces and devours all things.
[Kalahari Desert], in S. Africa, stretches far northward from the Orange River between German SW. Africa and the Transvaal, an elevated plateau, not really desert, but covered with scrub and affording coarse pasturage for cattle.
[Kalamazoo`] (18), a railway centre and flourishing town in the SW. of Michigan, 144 m. NE. of Chicago; manufactures machinery, paper, and flour.
[Kaleidoscope], an optical instrument, invented by Sir David Brewster in 1817, consisting of a cylinder with two mirrors set lengthwise inside, two plates of glass with bits of coloured glass loose between at one end and an eye-hole at the other, presents varying patterns on rotation.
[Kalevale], a collection of popular songs current among the peasantry of Finland from earliest times.
[Kali] (i. e. the black one), one of the names of the wife of [Siva] (q. v.), and of whom she is the female counterpart, and has been identified with the [Greek Hecate] (q. v.); she is represented with a necklace of human heads.
[Kálidása], a great Indian dramatist and poet, probably of the 6th century A.D.; was author of "The Lost Ring" and "The Hero and the Nymph," translated by Sir William Jones, much praised by Goethe and Max Müller.
[Kalmar] (12), seaport in SE. of Sweden, on an island in Kalmar Sound; carries on a large timber trade, and manufactures of tobacco and matches.
[Kalmucks], the name given to the Western Moguls, inhabiting Central Asia, and considerably intermingled with their neighbours, the Russians, Persians, and Turks; they are Buddhists, nomadic, and have herds of horses and cattle.
[Kalpa], a Braminical name for the immense period of time which separates one destruction of the world from the next, a day and a night of Brahma.