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Kali

noun

Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash. Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort.

Wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi.

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... holding bow and arrow in his hands; and who invoke a god of success, Ga{n}e{s}a, with four hands and an elephant's head, sitting on a rat. Nay, it is true that, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, the figure of the goddess Kali is carried through the streets of her own city, Calcutta,[10] her wild disheveled hair reaching to her feet, with a necklace of human heads, her tongue protruded from her mouth, her girdle stained with blood. All this is true; but ask any Hindu who can read and write and think, ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... be recommended without qualification, for it seems to require artists capable of making a worthy representation of the divine. And it must be confessed that many figures in Indian temples, such as the statues of Kali, seem repulsive or grotesque, though a Hindu might say that none of them are so strange in idea or so horrible in appearance as the crucifix. But the claim of the iconoclast from the times of the Old Testament onwards that he worships a ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... the final ending? The issue, can we know? Will Christ outlive Mohammed? Will Kali's altar go? This is our faith tremendous,— Our wild hope, who shall scorn,— That in the name of Jesus The world shall ...

— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay

Words linked to "Kali" : Hindu deity, bush, kelpwort, shrub, barilla