káli m. (√ 1. kal Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 117]), N. of the die or side of a die marked with one dot, the losing die, [AV. vii, 109, 1]; [ŚBr.] &c. (personified as an evil genius in the episode of Nala)
symbolical expression for the number 1
Terminalia Bellerica (the nuts of which in older times were used as dice), [L.]
N. of the last and worst of the four Yugas or ages, the present age, age of vice, [AitBr.]; [Mn. i, 86]; [ix, 301 f.]; [MBh.] &c. (the Kali age contains, inclusive of the two dawns, 1200 years of the gods or 432,000 years of men, and begins the eighteenth of February, 3102 B.C.; at the end of this Yuga the world is to be destroyed; see yuga)
strife, discord, quarrel, contention (personified as the son of krodha, ‘Anger’, and hiṃsā, ‘Injury’, and as generating with his sister durukti, ‘Calumny’, two children, viz. bhaya, ‘Fear’, and mṛtyu, ‘Death’, [BhP. iv, 8, 3]; [4]), [MBh.]; [Hit.] &c.
the worst of a class or number of objects, [MBh. xii, 361]; [363]
a hero (or an arrow, śūra, or śara), [L.]
N. of Śiva, [MBh. xiii, 1192]
N. of an Upaniṣad (= kalisaṃtaraṇa)
(ís), m. N. of a class of mythic beings (related to the Gandharvas, and supposed by some to be fond of gambling; in epic poetry Kali is held to be the fifteenth of the Deva-gandharvas or children of the Munis), [AV. x, 10, 13]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
m. pl. N. of a people and their country (the N. is applied in the Purāṇas to several places, but especially signifies a district on the Coromandel coast, extending from below Cuttack [Kaṭaka] to the vicinity of Madras), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [VP.] &c.
m. an inhabitant of Kaliṅga, [Sāh.]
N. of a king of Kaliṅga (from whom the Kaliṅga people are said to have originated; he is sometimes mentioned as a son of Dīrghatamas and Sudeṣṇā, sometimes identified with Bali), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
N. of a being attending on Skanda, [MBh. (ed. Bomb.) ix, 45, 64] (v.l. kalinda ed. Calc.)
n. an unforeseen event (as birth &c.) partly resulting from an act and leading to totally unforeseen consequences (as heaven &c.; paramāpūrvajanako 'ṅgajanyāpūrvabhedaḥ, [T.]), [Nyāyak.]