ORIENTAL SERIES.

KALMASHA-PADA KAMA. 145
Ms natural condition by Yasishflia. The Vishnu Purana tells
the story differently.
two destructive tigers.
The king went out to hunt and found
He killed one of them, but as it expired
it was changed into a Rakshasa. The other tiger disappeared
threatening vengeance. Kalmasha-pada celebrated a sacrifice at
which Vasish&a officiated. When it was over and Vasish&a
went out, the Rakshasa assumed his appearance, and proposed
that food should be served. Then the Rakshasa transformed
himself into a cook, and, preparing human flesh, he served it to
Vasish&a on his return. The indignant sage cursed the king
that henceforth his appetite should be excited only by similar
food. A wrangle ensued, and Vasish&a having found out the
truth, limited the duration of his curse to twelve years. The
angry king took water in his hands to pronounce, in his turn, a
curse upon Vasishftia, but was dissuaded from his purpose by
his wife, Madayanti. "Unwilling to cast the water on the
ground, lest it should wither up the grain, and equally reluctant
to throw it up into the air, lest it should blast the clouds and
dry up their contents, he threw it upon his own feet," and they
were so scalded by it that they became black and white, and
so gained for him the name of Kalmasha-pada, l
spotted feet.'
Every day for twelve years, at the sixth watch of the day, he
gave way to his cannibal "
appetite, and devoured multitudes of
men." On one occasion he devoured a Brahman in the midst
of his connubial happiness, and the Brahman's wife passed upon
him a curse that he should die whenever he associated with his
wife. At the expiration of Yasishiiha's curse, the king returned
home, but, mindful of the Brahmawfs imprecation, he abstained
from conjugal intercourse. By the interposition of Vasishtfha,
his wife, Madayanti, became pregnant, and bore a child in her
womb for seven years, when she performed the Csesarean opera-
tion with a sharp stone, and a child came forth who was called
'
Asmaka (from Asman, a
stone').
KALPA. A day and night of Brahma, 4,320,000,000 years,
See Yuga.
KALPA, KALPA StJTRAS. Ceremonial; one of the
Yedangas. A ceremonial directory or rubric expressed in the
form of Sutras, short technical rules.
KAMA, KAMA-DEYA, The god of love. Eros, Cupid
In the jRig-veda (x. 129) desire is said to have been the first
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