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Kartikeya +

The Indian God of War, son of Siva, born of his seed fallen into the Ganges. He is also the personification of the power of the Logos. The planet Mars. Kartika is a very occult personage, a nursling of the Pleiades, and a Kumâra. (See ''Secret Doctrine.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karuna‐Bhawana +

The meditation of pity and compassion in Yoga [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kasbeck +

The mountain in the Caucasian range where Prometheus was bound [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kashikhanda +

A section of the Skanda Purana devoted to Benares. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#532|2:532]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kasi +

Another and more ancient name of the holy city of Benares [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

KasiKhanda +

A long poem, which forms a part of the ''Skanda Purâna ''and contains another version of the legend of Daksha’s head. Having lost it in an affray, the gods replaced it with the head of a ram ''Mekha Shivas'', whereas the other versions describe it as the head of a goat, a substitution which changes the allegory considerably [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kasina +

A mystic Yoga rite used to free the mind from all agitation and bring the ''Kamic ''element to a dead stand‐still [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kasyapa +

A Vedic Sage; in the words of ''Atharva Veda'', “The self‐born who sprang from Time”. Besides being the father of the Adityas headed by Indra, Kasyapa is also the progenitor of serpents, reptiles, birds and other walking, flying and creeping beings [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Katha +

One of the Upanishads commented upon by Sankarâchârya [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kathasaritsagara +

Work by Somadeva-Bhatta. Zirkoff lists Sanskrit editions, Hermann Brockhaus’s German version, and C. H. Tawney’s English translation edited by N. M. Penzer in ten volumes (London, 1924-28). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#364|5:364]][[SMW::on]]). +

Katia +

M. Bibesco’s book about Ekaterina Dolgorukova; P. Bibesco’s English translation appeared from Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, in 1939, xix and 256 pages, illustrated. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The State of Russia (1)|BCW 3:168]]) +

Katkov, Mikhail Nikiforovich +

In a letter to N. D. Khandalawala written before leaving India in March 1885, [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] stated that she had refused his offer of a contract worth 40,000 francs a year. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xlii|BCW 6:xlii]]) +

Kato, Sho-Kwaku +

Japanese Buddhist of the Hongwanji branch of Shin-shu; compiler of ''A Shin-Shu Catechism'', published in ''The Theosophist'' in 1889. +

Katyayana +

Ancient Indian writer on grammar and ritual, traditionally associated with the ''Varttikas'', critical notes on Panini’s rules. Zirkoff tentatively places him in the third century BCE and notes his frequent identification with Vararuchi. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#376|5:376]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kaumara +

The “Kumara Creation”, the virgin youths who sprang from the body of Brahmâ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kauravya +

The King of the Nagas (Serpents) in Pâtâla, exoterically a hall. But esoterically it means something very different. There is a tribe of the ''Nâgas ''in Upper India; Nagal is the name in Mexico of the chief medicine men to this day, and was that of the chief adepts in the twilight of history; and finally ''Patal ''means the Antipodes and is a name of America. Hence the story that Arjuna travelled to Pâtàla, and married ''Ulupi'', the daughter of the King Kauravya, may he as historical as many others regarded first as fabled and then found out to be true [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kaushitakibrahmanopanishad +

Zirkoff cites E. B. Cowell’s edition and English translation (Calcutta, 1861), and refers to the collections of Upanishads translated by F. Max Müller and published by Tookaram Tatya. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#364|5:364]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kauthumi D.D. - Odorigen and Jivatma +

An article by [[Dharani Dhar Kauthumi]], signed Dharanidar Kauthumi, published in The Theosophist, July 1883, p. 251. In a footnote [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] clarified that it refers to the second human principle, more properly jīva or prāṇa, not the seventh principle of Vedānta. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Life Principle#77|BCW 9:77]]) +

Kavyavahana +

The fire of the Pitris [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kayanim +

Also written Cunim; the name of certain mystic cakes offered to ''Ishtar'', the Babylonian Venus. Jeremiah speaks of these Cunim offered to the “Queen of Heaven”, vii. 18. Nowadays we do not offer the buns, but eat them at Easter. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +