ORIENTAL SERIES.

KAKABANDHA. 1*7
been raised to the position of a deity. In the words of Max
Muller, " The authors of the Brahmarais had so completely
broken with the past, that, forgetful of the poetical character of
the hymns (of the Veda) and the yearning of the poets after the
unknown god, they exalted the interrogative pronoun itself into
a deity, and acknowledged a god Ka or Who ? In the Taittiriya
Brahmawa, in the Kaushltaki Brahmana, in the Tawdfya Brahmawa,
and in the $atapatha Brahmarca, wherever interrogative verses
occur, the author states that Ka is Prajapati,
or the lord of
creatures. Nor did they stop here. Some of the hymns in
which the interrogative pronoun occurred were called Kadvat,
ie., having had or quid. But soon a new adjective was formed,
and not only the hymns but the sacrifice also offered to the god
were called Kaya or Who-ish. ... At the time of Pamni, this
word had acquhed such legitimacy as to call for a Separate rule
explaining its formation. The commentator here explains Ka
wonder that in the later
by Brahman. After this we can hardly
Sanskrit literature of the Purawas Ka appears as a recognised
god, as a supreme god, with a genealogy of his own, perhaps
even with a wife; and that in the laws of Manu one of the
recognised forms of marriage, generally known by the name of
the Prajapati marriage, occurs under the monstrous title of
Kaya." The Maha-bharata identifies Ka witli Daksha, and the
Bhagavata Purana applies the term to Kasyapa,
no doubt in
consequence of their great generative powers and similarity to
Prajapati.
KABANDHA. i. A disciple of Su-mantu, the earliest teacher
of the Atharva-veda. 2. A monstrous Bakshasa slain by Rama.
He is said to have been a son. of the goddess STL He is de-
scribed as " covered with hair, vast as a mountain, without head
or neck, having a mouth armed with immense teeth in the
middle of his belly, arms a league long, and one enormous eye
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in his breast. Ho was originally a Gandharva, and his hideous
deformity arose, according to one account, from a quarrel with
Indra, whom he challenged, and who struck him with his thun-
derbolt, and drove his head and thighs into his body. According
to another statement, his deformity arose from the curse of a
sage. When mortally wounded, he requested Kama "to bum
his body, and when that was done he came out of the fire in
his real shape as a Gandharva, and counselled Banaa as to