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KAPARDIK *
KAPARDINKARNA,
Wearing the kaparda,' a peculiar "braid 01
knot of hair. This epithet is applied to $iva, to one of the
Rudras, and some others.
KAPI-DHWAJA, An epithet of Arjuna, because he bore
an ape (Jca/pi) on his standard (dhwaja).
KAPILA. A celebrated sage, the founder of the Sankhya
philosophy. The Hari-vansa makes him the son of Yitatha.
He is sometimes identified with Vishma and sometimes with
AgnL He is said to have destroyed the hundred thousand sons
of King Sagara with a glance.
See Sagara.
KAPILA, KAPILA-VASTU. A town on the river RohM,
an affluent of the Rapti, which was the capital of Suddhodana,
the father of Gotama Buddha.
KAPILA PURAiVA. See Purawa.
KAPLSA. Mother of the Pisachas, who bear the metro-
nymic Kapiseya.
KARALL '
Dreadful, terrible/ In Yedic times one of the
seven tongues of Agni (fire), but in later days a name of the
terrible consort of $iva. See Devi
KARDAMA. According to the Maha-bharata and Ramaya?ia,
he is one of the Prajapatis who sprang from Brahma. Accord-
ing to other authorities, he, or another sage of the same name,
was a son of Daksha or a son of Pulaha.
KARMA-MIMANSA. The Purva-mimansa. See Darsan&.
KARMA -MlMANSA-SfJTRA. A work on the Yedanta
philosophy, ascribed to Jaimini
KAR.ZVA. Son of Pntha or Kunti by Surya, the sun, before
her marriage to Pa?^u. Kama was thus half-brother of the
PMavas, but this relationship was not known to them till
after his death. Kunti, on one occasion, paid
such attention
to the sage Dur-vasas, that he gave her a charm by virtue of
which she might have a child by any god she preferred to
invoke. She chose the sun, and the result was Kar-ua, who
was born equipped with arms and armour. Afraid of censure
and disgrace, Kunti exposed the child on the banks of the
Yamuna, where it was found by Nandana or Adhiratha, the
sttta or charioteer of Dhnta-rashfra. The charioteer and his
wife, Radha, brought him up as their own, and the child passed
as such. When he grew up, Indra disguised himself as a Brahman,
and cajoled him out of his divine cuirass, He gave him