South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c13.29
South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c13.29
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Kachchhapēsvara, temple, at Conjeeveram, 22n. Kadalmallai, s.a. Mahābalipuram, 72n. Kadru, mother of serpents, 64n. Kailāsa, mountain, 82n, 90. Kailāsanātha, temple, at Conjeeveram, 2, 107. Kaitabha, demon, 52, 197n. Kākatiya, dynasty, 24. Kāla, s.a. Yama, 137 :— servant of Yama, 243. Kālabhadrā, form of Chāmundā, 197. Kāla-Bhairava, form of Bhairava, 151. Kālāgni-Rudra, form of Siva, 155. Kālahā, s.a. Kālahara, 132, 243. Kālahara or Kālaharamūrti, form of Siva, 132, 137, 243. Kālakūta, poison, produced at the churning of the ocean, 76, 137. Kālāmukha, sect of Saivas, 161. Kālamunda, s.a. Kāla, 151. Kālanāsa, s.a. Kālahara, 76n. Kālā-Pidāri, s.a. Kālī, 224. Kālarātrī, form of Durgā, 202, 211. Kalavikarani, the Sakti (goddess) of Kalavikarana (Siva), 190n. Kālī, goddess, consort of Mahākāla, 151 :— energy of Siva in his angry mood, 196n :— form of Chāmundā, 197, 199 :— of Durgā, 197n, 211 :— of Pārvatī, 82, 184, 224 :— the Sakti (goddess) of Kāla (Siva), 190n. Kālidāsa, Sanskrit poet, 177. Kālikā, consort of Nairrita, 197n, 243. Kālikā-Purāna, 11n, 243. Kālikā-tāndava, variety of Natarāja's dance, 84. Kalinga, country, 236. Kālingamardana, s.a. Kāliya-Krishna, 41. Kāliya, serpent, 38, 41. Kāliya-Krishna, form of Krishna, 38, 41. Kāliyamma, s.a. Kālī, 223, 224. Kali-yuga, name of the fourth Hindu æon, 161. Kalki, incarnation of Vishnu, 22, 47. Kallar, class of people in the Madura district, 230. kalpa-vriksha (or -druma), the wish-giving celestial tree, 37 :— used as vehicle in processions, 7 :— found on pedestals of images as aureola, 76, 173n, 265 :— sacred to the goddess Indrānī, 196 :— bunch of its flowers, symbol of Sachi, 241. Kalyāna or Kalyānapura, village in the Nizam's Dominions, 254. Kalyānasundara, form of Siva, 74, 103, 107. Kāma or Kāmadēva, god of Love, 62, 89. Kāmadhēnu, the wish-giving celestial cow, used as vehicle in processions, 7. Kāmākshi-amman, temple, at Conjeeveram, 222.