ORIENTAL SERIES.

KALA-MUKHAS.
KALA-MUKHASKAU. 141
'
Black faces.' People who sprang from
men and Kakshasa females.
KALANAS. (Kalyawa.) A Brahman who yielded to the
inducements of Alexander the Great and left his natiye country
to accompany the court of the conqueror. He afterwards re-
pented of what he had done and burnt himself at Pasargada.
KALA-NEML i. In the Eamaya?za a Rakshasa, uncle of
Kavawa. At the solicitation of Kavana, and with the promise
of half his kingdom, he endeavoured to kill Hanuman. Assum-
ing the form of a hermit-devotee, he went to the Gandha-madana
mountain, and when Hanuman proceeded thither in search of
medicinal herbs, the disguised Eakshasa invited him to his
hermitage and offered him food. Hanuman refused, but went
to bathe in a neighbouring pond. Upon his placing his foot
in the water it was seized by a crocodile, but he dragged the
creature out and killed it. From the dead body there arose a
lovely Apsaras, who had been cursed by Daksha to live as a
crocodile till she should be released by Hanuman. She told
her deliverer to be beware of Kala-nemi; so Hanuman went
back to that deceiver, told him that he knew him, and, taking
him by the feet, sent him whirling through the air to Lanka,
where he fell before the throne of Havana in the council-room.
2. In the Purawas a great Asura, son of Virochana, the grandson
of Hirawya-kasipu. He was killed by Vishmi, but was said to
live again in Kansa and in Kaliya,
KALA-YAVANA, (Lit.
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JBlack Yavana/ Yavana meaning
a Greek or foreigner.) A Yavana or foreign king who led an army
of barbarians to Mathura against Krishna. That hero lured
him into the cave of the mighty Muchukunda, who being dis-
turbed from sleep by a kick from Kala-yavana, cast a fiery
glance upon him and reduced him to ashes. This legend
appears to indicate an invasion from the Himalayas. According
to the Yishwu Purima and Hari-vansa, Kala-yavana was the
son of a Brahman named Garga, who had an especial spite
against the Yadavas, and was begotten by him on the wife of
a childless Yavana king.
KALHANA PANDIT. Author of the Kaja Tarangwi, a history
of Kashmir. He is supposed to have lived about 1 148 A. a
KALI. The Kali-yuga, personified as the spirit
of evil. In
playing dice Kali is the ace, and so is a personification of ill luck,