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kālī

f. black colour, ink or blacking, [L.]


abuse, censure, defamation, [L.]


a row or succession of black clouds, [L.]


night, [L.]


a worm or animalcule generated in the acetous fermentation of milk (= kṣīra-kīṭa or kṣāra-kīṭa), [L.]


the plant Kālāñjanī, [L.]


Ipomoea Turpethum, [L.]


a kind of clay, [L.]


Bignonia suaveolens, [L.]


one of the seven tongues or flames of fire, [MuṇḍUp. i, 2, 4]


a form of Durgā, [MBh. iv, 195]; [Hariv.]; [Kum.]


one of the Mātṛs or divine mothers, [L.]


N. of a female evil spirit (mother of the Kālakeyas), [Hariv. 11552]


one of the sixteen Vidyā-devīs, [L.]


N. of Satyavatī, wife of king Śāntanu and mother of Vyāsa or Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana (after her marriage she had a son Vicitra-vīrya, whose widows were married by Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana, and bore to him Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; according to other legends Kālī is the wife of Bhīmasena and mother of Sarvagata, [BhP.])


(with or without gaṅgā) N. of a river


(f. of 1. kāla, q.v.)


See p. 278, col. 1.