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Kali   Listen
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Kali  n.  (Hind. Myth.) The black, destroying goddess; called also Doorga, Anna Purna.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kali" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't exactly know," laughed Evelyn. "I looked 'symposium' up in the dictionary, and it said: 'literally a drinking together; a merry feast; a convivial party.' I don't know what we're going to drink, unless we bring lemon kali and pass it round, like they used to do the loving cup ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

... by the railway, and still haunted by elephants which, with pensive eyes, gazed at the train as it passed. The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his ...
— Around the World in 80 Days • Jules Verne

... Territories of Gorkha. Original Inhabitants—Hindu Colonies, their 9 period—Brahmans, History—Colony from Chitaur—Colony of Asanti—Success of Colonization in the West, in the East—Colony of Chaturbhuja—Hindu Tribes east from the River Kali—Language—Brahmans, Diet, Festivals, Offspring—Rajputs, adopted, illegitimate—Low Tribes—General Observations on the Customs of the Mountain Hindus east from the Kali—Of the Hindus west from the Kali—Of Tribes who occupied the Country previous to the Hindus—Manners—Magars—Gurungs—Jariyas—Newars—Murmis— ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton



Words linked to "Kali" :   glasswort, Salsola soda, Salsola kali tenuifolia, saltwort, bush, Hindu deity, Salsola kali, kelpwort, barilla



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