COLLATION OF THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARIES
List of Title Abbreviations (in alphabetical order)
TG K. -- The eleventh letter in both the English and the Hebrew alphabets. As a numeral it stands in the latter for 20, and in the former for 250, and with a stroke over it ([[symbol K with a line over it]]) for 250,000. The Kabalists and the Masons appropriate the word Kodesh or Kadosh as the name of the Jewish god under this letter.
TG Ka (Sk.). According to Max Muller, the interrogative pronoun "who?" -- raised to the dignity of a deity without cause or reason. Still it has its esoteric significance and is a name of Brahma in his phallic character as generator or Prajapati (q.v.).
SD INDEX Ka (Egy), astral body corresponds to nephesh (Heb) II 633
TG Kabah or Kaaba (Arab.). The name of the famous Mahommedan temple at Mecca, a great place of pilgrimage. The edifice is not large but very original; of a cubical form 23 x 24 cubits in length and breadth and 27 cubits high, with only one aperture on the East side to admit light. In the north-east corner is the "black stone" of Kaaba, said to have been lowered down direct from heaven and to have been as white as snow, but subsequently it became black, owing to the sins of mankind. The "white stone", the reputed tomb of Ismael, is in the north side and the place of Abraham is to the east: If, as the Mahommedans claim, this temple was, at the prayer of Adam after his exile, transferred by Allah or Jehovah direct from Eden down to earth, then the "heathen" may truly claim to have far exceeded the divine primordial architecture in the beauty of their edifices.
TG Kabalah (Heb.). The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic.
KT Kabbalah (Heb.), or Kabbala. "The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon." All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic.
FY Kabala, ancient mystical Jewish books.
WG Kabala (Hebrew), the esoteric meaning of the scriptures and the traditions of the Jews, derived by them from the Chaldeans. As, in the Hebrew language, the consonants only were usually written and the vowels omitted, the letters being at equal distances and without punctuation, and each letter representing also a numeral, the real meaning could be concealed under an apparently real wording.
IN Kabbalah (Heb) The esoteric "tradition" or theosophy of the Jews.
SD INDEX Kabala. See Levi, E.
SD INDEX Kabbala, Kabala, Cabala, Qabbalah
referred to:
adjusted for Christian tenets II 37-8, 128, 457, 476Midrash before, of ben-Iochai II 704
fr Aryan Secret Doctrine I 376; II 239
Chaldean, & ancient wisdom I 200, 241, 439; II 461-2
Cis-Himalayan teachings & II 308n
deity is the universe I 92n
early, metaphysical II 457
edited & re-edited II 469, 536
esoteric & exoteric II 41
Jews got, fr Chaldea & Egypt II 240
key to Bible I 336, 344; II 624, 625n, 691
key to, Parker on II 544
Masonry, Bible & II 39
SEE ALSO; QABBALAH
SD INDEX Kabbala denudata. See Knorr von Rosenroth
SD INDEX Kabbalah, The. See Ginsberg, C. D.
SD INDEX Kabbalah [Qabbalah].See Myer, I.
SD INDEX Kabbalah Unveiled. See Mathers, S. L. M.
SD INDEX Kabbale, La. See Franck, Adolph
TG Kabalist. From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of "secret science", one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, and the Revelation of St. John, are purely kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of the Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or "magic". History catches glimpses of famous kabalists ever since the eleventh century. The Mediaeval ages, and even our own times, have had an enormous number of the most learned and intellectual men who were students of the Kabala (or Qabbalah, as some spell it). The most famous among the former were Paracelsus, Henry Khunrath, Jacob Bohmen, Robert Fludd, the two Van Helmonts, the Abbot John Trithemius, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardinal Nicolao Cusani, Jerome Carden, Pope Sixtus IV., and such Christian scholars as Raymond Lully, Giovanni Pico de la Mirandola, Guillaume Postel, the great John Reuchlin, Dr. Henry More, Eugenius Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), the erudite Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, Christian Knorr (Baron) von Rosenroth; then Sir Isaac Newton, Leibniz, Lord Bacon, Spinosa, etc., etc., the list being almost inexhaustible. As remarked by Mr. Isaac Myer, in his Qabbalah, the ideas of the Kabalists have largely influenced European literature. "Upon the practical Qabbalah, the Abbe de Villars (nephew of de Montfaucon) in 1670, published his celebrated satirical novel, 'The Count de Gabalis', upon which Pope based his 'Rape of the Lock'. Qabbalism ran through the Mediaeval poems, the 'Romance of the Rose', and permeates the writings of Dante." No two of them, however, agreed upon the origin of the Kabala, the Zohar, Sepher Yetzirah, etc. Some show it as coming from the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, and even Seth; others from Egypt, others again from Chaldea. The system is certainly very old; but like all the rest of systems, whether religious or philosophical, the Kabala is derived directly from the primeval Secret Doctrine of the East; through the Vedas, the Upanishads, Orpheus and Thales, Pythagoras and the Egyptians. Whatever its source, its substratum is at any rate identical with that of all the other systems from the Book of the Dead down to the later Gnostics. The best exponents of the Kabala in the Theosophical Society were among the earliest, Dr. S. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, and Mr. G. Felt; and among the latest, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Mr. S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers (both of the Rosicrucian College) and a few others. (See "Qabbalah".)
IU Kabalist. -- From GREEK, KABALA; an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of "secret science," one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The Books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, and the Revelation of St. John, are purely kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of the Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or "magic."
SD INDEX Kabbalist(s)
Adam's earth of I 543n
Bible popular blind to II 473
ceremonial magic & I 234n
Christian, gross explanations of II 247
Christian, interpret Genesis II 234
cross, circle & modern II 543
deity is one & triple I 59
dodecahedron in cube I 450
earth, water make living being II 188
embryonic stages known to II 259
esotericism unknown to modern II 603
evil force essential to good I 413
evolution of embryo discussed II 188-9
expound ancient traditions I 287
Father-Mother & ether one I 75-6
fiery serpents II 212
four distinct Adams, taught II 457
Genesis, shifted order of II 127-8
gnostic I 351-2
grasp wisdom of Bible I 316
Hecate predecessor of God I 395
immutable deity of I 374
individual cycles of II 188
interprets man & God I 444-5
Jewish, dwarf cosmic cycles II 564
Levi & I 243, 245, 259n
Levites &, Holy of Holies II 459
made 2 lives of body & soul I 234
"MAN becomes stone, plant . . ." II 186
medieval, man microcosm in I 283 &n
name of Jehovah screen among I 438
number basis of biblical names II 467
"Pymander" remodeled by II 267n
on ruach & nephesh I 193; II 633 &n
sectarian, distort Zohar II 476 &n
serpent spiritual sun of II 214
Son or cosmic electricity I 75-6
Space unknowable & living I 615
Tetraktys became Tetragrammaton II 463n
theists I 317
thought orig metaphysical I 619n
Tritheim greatest, of his day II 512n
Western I 255; II 86
TG Kabalistic Faces. These are Nephesch, Ruach and Neschamah, or the animal (vital), the Spiritual and the Divine Souls in man -- Body, Soul and Mind.
SD INDEX Kabbalistic
axiom stone, plant, beast . . . I 107, 197, 246; II 186, 258
elemental spirits I 234n
esoteric &, pneumatics compared I 243-5
esotericism, curse in II 411
faces in IU I 197
Garden of Eden II 204
Hindu &, systems compared I 355-6
Jehovah &, deity compared I 355-6
a modern, manuscript on ansated cross II 31n
numerals based on seven & three I 239
planes & worlds I 199-200
system does not contain all I 318
terms discussed I 114
Trinity discussed I 337
view of astral light I 195-6
TG Kabiri (Phoen.), or the Kabirim. Deities and very mysterious gods with the ancient nations, including the Israelites, some of whom -- as Terah, Abram's father -- worshipped them under the name of Teraphim. With the Christians, however, they are now devils, although the modern Archangels are the direct transformation of these same Kabiri. In Hebrew the latter name means "the mighty ones", Gibborim. At one time all the deities connected with fire -- whether they were divine, infernal or volcanic -- were called Kabirian.
IN Kabiri (Gk, kabeiroi, possibly of Phrygian origin) Divine instructors of arts, sciences, and agriculture, linked with cosmic and terrestrial fire; also, regents of seasons and cosmic cycles.
SD INDEX Kabir(i, im), Kabeiri(m). See also Dhyanichohans, Divine Kings, Fires, Kumaras, Manus, Rudras, Titans
appear at beginning of cycles I 435n, 641
archetypal man II 3
build everlasting monuments I 434-5 &n
cherubs of Jews & II 115n
derivation of word II 362n, 363
described II 362-4
dhyani-chohans II 360, 390-3
divine Titans or II 141
ethereal fire emanation of I 469
generic name II 363
gibborim in fifth race II 273-4
incarnated in third, fourth races II 360
instructors in agriculture I 642n; II 364-5, 390
kumaras, rudras II 106
Manes also called II 143, 360
mysterious ancient gods II 264
Noah & family II 360n, 390-3
occult powers of nature II 106
pi, circle, & I 114
regents of seasons, cycles I 641, 642
seventh II 365n
sons of Sydic or Zedek II 392
Telchines or II 391
temples of, at Thebes, Memphis II 363
theology links, w devil II 354
three, four, & seven II 106, 115n, 142, 143, 362
Titans &, same as seven rishis II 142
two races of, (Cumberland) II 393
various named I 114; II 360, 362, 365-6 &n, 393
Vulcan greatest II 390n
SD INDEX Kabiri-Titans II 360-1, 363-4
SD INDEX Kabolitae, Kabul tribes, Ptolemy on II 200n
SD INDEX Kabul, Arabs fr II 200
SD INDEX Kadesh-Kadeshim. See Qadesh Qedeshim
SD INDEX Kadeshuth. See Qedeshoth
SD INDEX Kadim [Qadim] (Heb) I 466
TG Kadmon (Heb.). Archetypal man. See "Adam Kadmon".
WGa Kadmon, see Adam Kadmon.
SD INDEX Kadmos, Kadmilos. See Cadmus
TG Kadosh (Heb.). Consecrated, holy; also written Kodesh. Something set apart for temple worship. But between the etymological meaning of the word, and its subsequent significance in application to the Kadeshim (the "priests" set apart for certain temple rites) -- there is an abyss. The words Kadosh and Kadeshim are used in II. Kings as rather an opprobrious name, for the Kadeshuth of the Bible were identical in their office and duties with the Nautch girls of some Hindu temples. They were Galli, the mutilated priests of the lascivious rites of Venus Astarte, who lived "by the house of the Lord". Curiously enough the terms Kadosh, etc., were appropriated and used by several degrees of Masonic knighthood.
SD INDEX Kadra, Kadru (Skt)
Kapila son of II 572
Kasyapa's wife II 132
SD INDEX Kadushu. See Qadesh Qedeshim
SD INDEX Kaempfer, E., History of Japan & Siam, Chinese Atlantis, Noah II 365
SD INDEX Kaf, Koh-Kaf, Kaph Mountains
or Caucasus, continent beyond II 399
described II 362, 398
devs (giants) dwelt in II 397
gallery of statues in, (Herbelot) II 396
SD INDEX Kaffirs II 725
SD INDEX Kai-caus, fights the white devil II 403
SD INDEX Kaikobad (Pers), starts new dynasty II 398
TG Kailasa (Sk.). In metaphysics "heaven", the abode of gods; geographically a mountain range in the Himalayas, north of the Mansaravara lake, called also lake Manasa.
SD INDEX Kailas Range I xxviiin
Indus River springs fr II 417-18
part of Arghya Varsha II 416n
real war in Himalayan II 500
TG Kailem (Heb.). Lit., vessels or vehicles; the vases for the source of the Waters of Life; used of the Ten Sephiroth, considered as the primeval nuclei of all Kosmic Forces. c Kabalists regard them as manifesting in the universe through twenty-two canals, which are represented by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, thus making with the Ten Sephiroth thirty-two paths of wisdom. [W.W.W.]
TG Kaimarath (Pers.). The last of the race of the prehuman kings. He is identical with Adam Kadmon. A fabulous Persian hero.
SD INDEX Kaimurath (Pers)
Siamek son of II 396
Simorgh (Phoenix) older than II 397
tenth Persian king II 394
SD INDEX Kain. See also Cain, Ka-yin, Kin
fr Kanithi, "I have gotten" II 127
SD INDEX Kaio (Gk) "to burn," Kabeiron (Kabiri) fr II 363
WG Kaivalya, emancipation of the soul from matter; enjoyment by the jiva, in its real condition, of supreme bliss. (Literally, "isolated," "detached.")
TG Kakodaemon (Gr.). The evil genius as opposed to Agathodaemon, the good genius, or deity. A Gnostic term.
SD INDEX Kakodaimon (Gk) evil spirit
Agathodaemon &, same roots I 412
bad Logos, serpent I 344, 410
TG Kala (Sk.). A measure of time; four hours, a period of thirty Kashthas.
TG Kala (Sk.). Time, fate; a cycle and a proper name, or title given to Yama, King of the nether world and Judge of the Dead.
WG Kala, time. (See Time.)
SD INDEX Kala (Skt) time
Brahma emanation of I 427
circle of boundless time II 142n, 233, 549, 756
evolution of I 407
fire deity presides over I 86
Khandakala & I 62
Kronos-Saturn or I 72n, 452n
purusha-pradhana-, & creation I 451-2n
St Michael, son of time or I 459
"Sarvaga" & I 582
serpent deity II 756
Vishnu is I 427; II 549, 564
SD INDEX Kala-bagh (Kalabagh), Indus River called Nil (blue) near II 417-18
TG Kalabhana (Sk.). The same as Taraka (See Secret Doctrine, Vol. II., p. 382, foot-note).
SD INDEX Kalabhana (Skt). See Kalanabha
SD INDEX Kala-chakra, on anupadaka [aupapaduka] I 52n
TG Kalagni (Sk.). The flame of time. A divine Being created by Siva, a monster with 1,000 heads. A title of Siva meaning "the fire of fate".
SD INDEX Kalagni (Skt), consumes Earth I 370
TG Kalahansa or Hamsa (Sk.). A mystic title given to Brahma (or Parabrahman); means "the swan in and out of time". Brahma (male) is called Hansa-Vahan, the vehicle of the "Swan".
SKv Kala-hansa, Kali-hansa, Hansa-Vahana, Brahmanda Kala-hansa, literally meaning 'the Swan in Eternity,' is a title of Brahma (masculine), the 'Self of the Solar System.' The ancient Aryans symbolized this 'First Cause' of our Solar System as an invisible mystical Bird who dropped into Space an Egg, which became the Solar Universe or Brahmanda, the anda or 'Egg' of Brahma. The Kala or 'Eternity' represents the great age of Brahma's life or a Maha-Manvantara. The word Hansa, or Hamsa, interpreted esoterically is equivalent to aham-sa -'I am HE,' a highly occult phrase implying that universal mystery of the identity of the Solar System and all in it with the essence of Brahman, the highest Principle or Self of the Galactic Universe. Brahman (neuter), 'the Universal Self' or 'He who breathes forth the various Brahmas or Solar Selves,' is called the Hansa-Vahana, or 'the Bearer of the Swan.' Vahana is derived from the verb-root vah -- to carry. Brahman (neuter) is also called Kali-Hansa, 'the Black Swan,' suggesting the unrevealed Divine Wisdom of this great Being which is Darkness to mankind.
SD INDEX Kal-aham-sa (Skt), "I am I" I 78
SD INDEX Kalahansa [-Hamsa] (Skt). See also Hamsa, Man-Swan, Swan
Brahma(n) or I 20, 79-80
described, explained I 77-81
Kwan-shi-yin floating on I 471
lays golden egg I 359
"Swan in Eternity" I 359, 362; II 122, 465
SD INDEX Kalaka (Skt), wife of Kasyapa II 381-2
SD INDEX Kalanabha (Skt), name of Taraka II 382n
SD INDEX Kalapa (village of) Devapi, Moru [Maru] reside at I 378 &n
SD INDEX Kalapani (Skt) black waters
early Arabs did not cross II 406
few sacred books crossed I xxx
TG Kalavingka (Sk.). also Kuravikaya and Karanda, etc. "The sweet-voiced bird of immortality". Eitel identifies it with cuculus melanoleicus, though the bird itself is allegorical and non-existent. Its voice is heard at a certain stage of Dhyana in Yoga practice. It is said to have awakened King Bimbisara and thus saved him from the sting of a cobra. In its esoteric meaning this sweet-voiced bird is our Higher Ego.
WG Kalayana, truth-seeking, mercy, charity; fair, lovely.
TG Kalevala. The Finnish Epic of Creation.
SD INDEX Kalevala (Finnish epic)
dragon, serpent in II 26
duck lays golden eggs in II 14, 122
TG Kali (Sk.). The "black", now the name of Parvati, the consort of Siva, but originally that of one of the seven tongues of Agni, the god of fire -- "the black, fiery tongue". Evil and wickedness.
WG Kali, black; an epithet of Siva; the goddess Durga.
SD INDEX Kali (Skt) black
seventh tongue of Agni I 443
Siva's consort & cord symbol II 548
waters of, agitated II 406
TG Kalidasa (Sk.). The greatest poet and dramatist of India.
WG Kalidasa, the greatest dramatist of India, well known in European literature. His drama Sakuntala was first translated into English in 1789. He is said to have lived in the sixth century A.D.
SD INDEX Kali-Hansa (Skt). See Hamsa, Kalahansa
SD INDEX Kali-Karaka (Skt) [strife-maker] Narada called II 48
TG Kaliya (Sk.). The five-headed serpent killed by Krishna in his childhood. A mystical monster symbolizing the passions of man -- the river or water being a symbol of matter.
SD INDEX Kaliya (Skt) [serpent slain by Krishna], various equivalents of II 379
TG Kaliyuga (Sk.). The fourth, the black or iron age, our present period, the duration of which is 432,000 years. The last of the ages into which the evolutionary period of man is divided by a series of such ages. It began 3,102 years B.C. at the moment of Krishna's death, and the first cycle of 5,000 years will end between the years 1897 and 1898.
FY Kaliyuga, the last of the four ages in which the evolutionary period of man is divided. It began 3,000 years B.C.
WG Kali-yuga, the age of vice, a period of 432,000 years of mortals in Brahmanical computation. It is the present yuga, the age in which we live, and is described in the Mahabharata as characterized by great material advance, with spiritual darkness. (See Yuga.)
SD INDEX Kali-Yuga (Skt), dark, iron age II 308n. See also Dvapara-, Satya-, & Treta-Yuga, Yugas
age "black w horrors" I 645
began 5,000 years ago I 650; II 147, 300
began 3102 BC I 662, 663; II 435
began w death of Krishna I xliii; II 140, 527, 550
calculations re I 662, 664-5
calendar of II 50-1 &n, 69-70
discussed in Vishnu Purana I 377-8
5,000 years of, ended I xliii-iv, 612
Indra degraded in II 614
Kalki avatara ends I 378; II 483
Kapila great sage of II 572
length of I 369; II 69, 147
lunar eclipse & II 435
no world savior in our I 470
now reigns in India I 377
occurs in Bharata (Varsha) II 322
our Aryan race now in II 147n
reversed seven-pointed star I 5
St Yves d'Alveydre on II 549 &n
seven rishis in Magha began II 550
some West Aryans now in I 645
war inMahabharata preceded II 395
Yudhishthira at opening of I 369
TG Kalki Avatar (Sk.). The "White Horse Avatar", which will be the last manvantaric incarnation of Vishnu, according to the Brahmins; of Maitreya Buddha, agreeably to Northern Buddhists; of Sosiosh, the last hero and Saviour of the Zoroastrians, as claimed by Parsis; and of the "Faithful and True" on the white Horse (Rev. xix., 2). In his future epiphany or tenth avatar, the heavens will open and Vishnu will appear "seated on a milk-white steed, with a drawn sword blazing like a comet, for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of 'creation' and the 'restoration of purity'". (Compare Revelation.) This will take place at the end of the Kaliyuga 427,000 years hence. The latter end of every Yuga is called "the destruction of the world", as then the earth changes each time its outward form, submerging one set of continents and upheaving another set.
WG Kalki Avatar, the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu, who will appear at the end of the four yugas. (See Avatara.)
SD INDEX Kalki [white horse] Avatara (Skt)
expected fr Arghya Varsha II 416n
Io symbolizes race of II 416n
last messiah of great cycle I 384
Maitreya or fifth buddha & I 384
paranirvana, second Advent & I 268
Sosiosh or II 420
Vishnu will return as I 87; II 483
will close kali-yuga I 378; II 483
SD INDEXa Kallista polu parthenon I 395 (Gk) "Loveliest by far of the maidens." -- Euripides, Hippolytos, line 66
SD INDEX Kalliste (Gk) [most beautiful], name given Luna-Artemis I 395
TG Kalluka Bhatta (Sk.). A commentator of the Hindu Manu Smriti Scriptures; a well-known writer and historian.
TG Kalpa (Sk.). The period of a mundane revolution, generally a cycle of time, but usually, it represents a "day" and "night" of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.
VS Kalpas [[p. 68]] Cycles of ages.
FY Kalpa, the period of cosmic activity; a day of Brahma, 4,320 million years.
WG Kalpa, a day of Brahma, or 1,000 yugas, a period of 432,000,000 years of mortals. (See Yuga.)
OG Kalpa -- (Sanskrit) This word comes from a verb-root klrip, meaning "to be in order"; hence a "period of time," or a "cycle of time." Sometimes a kalpa is called the period of a mahamanvantara -- or "great manvantara" -- after which the globes of a planetary chain no longer go into obscuration or repose, as they periodically do, but die utterly. A kalpa is also called a Day of Brahma, and its length is 4,320,000,000 years. Seven rounds form a Day of Brahma, or a planetary manvantara. (See also Brahma, Manvantara)
Seven planetary manvantaras (or planetary cycles, each cycle consisting of seven rounds) form one solar kalpa (or solar manvantara), or seven Days of Brahma -- a week of Brahma.
The difficulty that many Western students have had in understanding this word lies in the fact that it is unavoidably a "blind," because it does not apply with exclusive meaning to the length of one time period alone. Like the English word age, or the English phrase time period, the word kalpa may be used for several different cycles. There is likewise the maha-kalpa or "great kalpa," which frequently is the name given to the vast time period contained in a complete solar manvantara or complete solar pralaya.
GH Kalpa A period of time, a cycle: a generalizing term and therefore used for time-periods of different lengths; chronologers, however, compute a Kalpa by the Life of Brahma -- minor kalpas are numerous. A Mahakalpa is often made the equivalent of a Manvantara. (The following word is derived from the verbal root:) klrip, to be in order. Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 65)
SKo Kalpa, Maha-Kalpa A Kalpa is a cycle of time; from the verb-root klrip -- to be in order. Like the English word cycle, Kalpa may be used for several different periods of time. It is sometimes used synonymously with 'A Day of Brahma,' a period of 4,320,000,000 years. A Solar Kalpa, or 'Seven Days of Brahma' is usually called a Maha-Kalpa or Great Kalpa.
IN Kalpa (Skt) An age or vast time cycle.
SP Kalpa -- a vast cycle of time.
SD INDEX Kalpa(s) (Skt) II 147. See also Age, Cycle, Day/Life of Brahma, Rounds
applied variously II 307n, 320
bearing on human life I 637-47
catastrophes at close of II 325
changes during II 312, 325
Chenresi, Padmapani & II 179
Daksha lives in all I 430
defined I 368; II 307n
dhyanis live as long as Brahma I 442, 457
each, has its dhyani II 179
eternity & I 336n
former, & Daksha II 176-7
fourteen manus for every II 307
gods, demigods reborn in II 248
infinite in number I 368; II 179
karma unites creative forces I 635, 637
law of sevens & II 611, 616
of life I 116
local, or round II 46
maha I 36, 206; II 70
major & minor I 369
"Mirror of Futurity" records all II 49
motion of bodies varies w I 530
Narada regulates II 48, 82-3
Pesh-Hun guides II 48-9
previous, & nirvanis II 232
seven creations in each II 53n
seven in present manvantara II 711
several distinct I 454
sons of Brahma reborn in every II 82-3, 90, 232, 247n
table of manvantaras in II 68-70
twenty-ninth (mid-Atlantean) II 249
various colors of Siva in I 324; II 249
Vishnu relates story of seven II 611
SEE ALSO; YUGA
SD INDEX Kalpic Masks, temporary appearance of elements I 673
TG Kama (Sk.). Evil desire, lust, volition; the cleaving to existence. Kama is generally identified with Mara, the tempter.
FY Kama, lust, desire, volition; the Hindu Cupid.
WG Kama, desire, longing, love.
OG Kama -- (Sanskrit) "Desire"; the fourth substance-principle of which man's constitution is composed. Kama is the driving or impelling force in the human constitution; per se it is colorless, neither good nor bad, and is only such as the mind and soul direct its use. It is the seat of the living electric impulses, desires, aspirations, considered in their energic aspect. Usually however, although there is a divine kama as well as an infernal one, this word is restricted, and wrongly so, to evil desire almost exclusively.
SKo Kama The Desire-principle in man; derived from the verb-root kam, 'to desire.' Kama is the seat of the driving and electrical forces in man, the basis of action. Kama per se is colorless, neither good nor bad. If this force is used by the impulses of the lower and less evolved parts of our nature, its direction is downward, leading to decay and destruction; if used by the aspirations and desires of the Higher Manas its direction is upward, leading to growth and eternal life. Hence Karna, the fourth of the seven principles in man, has been called the balance-principle, and likened to the sign Libra in the path of the Sun through the Zodiac.
IN Kama (Skt) "Desire"; love in all its ranges, cosmic and human.
SP Kama -- desire. Kama-loka is the world or realm of desire. Kama-rupa is the desire body.
SD INDEX Kama (Skt) desire II 161. See also Desire, Kosa
Aja or the unborn II 176, 578
animal soul II 671
cosmic aspect of II 175-6
first god of Vedas II 579
god in oldest Purana, not Indra II 174n
intensity of, varies in animals II 255
kumaras sprang fr II 579
later became sexual II 176
Makara-ketu or II 578
manas &, completes man II 79
manas, & root-races II 254n
manas drawn down by I 244-5; II 254n, 614
Prometheus left, unchanged II 412-13
wedded to manas (Zeus) II 419-20
SEE ALSO; PRINCIPLES, ATMA, BUDDHI, MANAS, PRANA, LINGA-SARIRA, STHULA-SARIRA
TG Kamadeva (Sk.). In the popular notions the god of love, a Visvadeva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As the Eros of Hesiod, degraded into Cupid by exoteric law, and still more degraded by a later popular sense attributed to the term, so is Kama a most mysterious and metaphysical subject. The earlier Vedic description of Kama alone gives the key-note to what he emblematizes. Kama is the first conscious, all embracing desire for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness, the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE FORCE, as soon as it came into life and being as a ray from the ABSOLUTE. Says the Rig Veda, "Desire first arose in IT, which was the primal germ of mind, and which Sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects Entity with non-Entity", or Manas with pure Atma-Buddhi. There is no idea of sexual love in the conception. Kama is preeminently the divine desire of creating happiness and love; and it is only ages later, as mankind began to materialize by anthropomorphization its grandest ideals into cut and dried dogmas, that Kama became the power that gratifies desire on the animal plane. This is shown by what every Veda and some Brahmanas say. In the Atharva Veda, Kama is represented as the Supreme Deity and Creator. In the Taitariya Brahmana, he is the child of Dharma, the god of Law and Justice, of Sraddha and faith. In another account he springs from the heart of Brahma. Others show him born from water, i.e., from primordial chaos, or the "Deep". Hence one of his many names, Ira-ja, "the water-born"; and Aja, "unborn"; and Atmabhu or "Self-existent". Because of the sign of Makara (Capricornus) on his banner, he is also called "Makara Ketu". The allegory about Siva, the "Great Yogin", reducing Kama to ashes by the fire from his central (or third) Eye, for inspiring the Mahadeva with thoughts of his wife, while he was at his devotions -- is very suggestive, as it is said that he thereby reduced Kama to his primeval spiritual form.
GH Kamadeva The god of love (literally the god Kama). The first-born in the Vedas: "Him neither devas, nor pitris, nor men have equalled. Thou art superior to these and forever great," chants the Atharva-Veda; while the Rig-Veda sings: "Desire first arose in It, which was the primal germ of mind; and which sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects entity with non-entity" (x, 129). Kamadeva is the lord of the Apsarasas (the celestial nymphs, consorts of the Gandharvas, q.v.), and is represented as a handsome youth riding on a parrot, attended by the Apsarasas, one of whom bears his banner distinguished by the Makara (q.v.). His bow is made of sugar-cane, and his bow-string a line of bees, while each one of his arrows is tipped with a different flower. The Taittiriya Brahmana has it that Kamadeva was the son of Dharma (moral religious duty, piety, justice) and of Sraddha (faith); in another hymn he is born from the heart of Brahma and therefore called the Self-Existent (Atma-bhu), or the Unborn (Aja).
Kamadeva is in the Rig-Veda "the personification of that feeling which leads and propels to creation. He was the first movement that stirred the ONE, after its manifestation from the purely abstract principle, to create," (Secret Doctrine, II, p. 176).
"As Eros was connected in early Greek mythology with the world's creation, and only afterwards became the sexual Cupid, so was Kama in his original Vedic character," (ibid.). (Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 74 -- mentioned as 'the god of love.')
SD INDEX Kamadeva (Skt)
Makara on banner of, explained II 578
not Indra sends Pramlocha II 175-6
TG Kamadhatu (Sk.). Called also Kamavatchara, a region including Kamaloka. In exoteric ideas it is the first of the Trailokya -- or three regions (applied also to celestial beings) or seven planes or degrees, each broadly represented by one of the three chief characteristics; namely, Kama, Rupa and Arupa, or those of desire, form and formlessness. The first of the Trailokyas, Kamadhatu, is thus composed of the earth and the six inferior Devalokas, the earth being followed by Kamaloka (q.v.). These taken together constitute the seven degrees of the material world of form and sensuous gratification. The second of the Trailokya (or Trilokya) is called Rupadhatu or "material form" and is also composed of seven Lokas (or localities). The third is Arupadhatu or "immaterial lokas". "Locality", however, is an incorrect word to use in translating the term dhatu, which does not mean in some of its special applications a "place" at all. For instance, Arupadhatu is a purely subjective world, a "state" rather than a place. But as the European tongues have no adequate metaphysical terms to express certain ideas, we can only point out the difficulty.
WG Kama-Dhuk, a mythological animal, the cow of plenty.
GH Kamaduh (dictionary form or 'crude form': nominative case. Kamadhuk) The mythical cow belonging to the sage Vasishtha, produced by the gods at the churning of the cosmic ocean. (See Ananta.) She is supposed to grant all desires and hence is termed the 'cow of plenty.' The alternative form, Kamadhenu, gives the clue to this meaning: kama, desire, wish; dhenu, milch-cow. In interpretation of the above allegory: the reference is to the appearance of the Earth in space as the mother of all that later appears on it. (Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 23)
TG Kamaloka (Sk.). The semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied "personalities", the astral forms, called Kamarupa remain, until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires. (See "Kamarupa".) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows; a division of the first group of the Trailokya. (See "Kamadhatu".)
KT Kamaloka (Sans.) The semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied "personalities," the astral forms called Kama Rupa, remain until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of the lower animal passions and desires. (See Kama Rupa.) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians -- the land of Silent Shadows.
FY Kama Loka, abode of desire, the first condition through which a human entity passes in its passage, after death, to Devachan. It corresponds to purgatory.
WGa Kamaloka, sometimes written Kama Loka and Kama -Loca. Literally, the place, world, or sphere of desire, from Kama, desire, and loka, place, world, or sphere. That place where the body of passions and desires holds sway after the death of the physical body. It is the same as the Greek Hades and Egyptian Amenti, where the astral shades of the dead remain until they disintegrate or fade out. As the earthly plane is where the material body disintegrates, so Kamaloka is that one wherein the astral body in its turn dies and fades away. Kamaloka is much the same as the purgatory of the Christians, and in it remain the bodies of the dead infused with the desires and passions, for which reason is the term Kamarupa. The disincarnated Ego sheds its astral body in Kamaloka, and from that state passes to Devachan; hence the state is intermediate between earth-life and the joys of the Devachanic state.
OG Kama-Loka -- (Sanskrit) A compound which can be translated as "desire world," which is accurate enough, but only slightly descriptive. It is a semi-material plane or rather world or realm, subjective and invisible to human beings as a rule, which surrounds and also encloses our physical globe. It is the habitat or dwelling-place of the astral forms of dead men and other dead beings -- the realm of the kama-rupas or desire-bodies of defunct humans. "It is the Hades," as H. P. Blavatsky says, "of the ancient Greeks, and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows."
It is in the kama-loka that the second death takes place, after which the freed upper duad of the human being that was enters the devachan. The highest regions of the kama-loka blend insensibly into the lowest regions or realms of the devachan; and, conversely, the grossest and lowest regions of the kama-loka blend insensibly into the highest regions of the avichi.
When the physical body breaks up at death, the astral elements of the excarnate entity remain in the kama-loka or "shadow world," with the same vital centers as in physical life clinging within them, still vitalizing them; and here certain processes take place. The lower human soul that is befouled with earth-thought and the lower instincts cannot easily rise out of the kama-loka, because it is foul, it is heavy; and its tendency is consequently downwards. It is in the kama-loka that the processes of separation of the monad from the kama-rupic spook or phantom take place; and when this separation is complete, which is the second death above spoken of, then the monad receives the reincarnating ego within its bosom, wherein it enjoys its long rest of bliss and recuperation. If, contrariwise, the entity in the kama-loka is so heavy with evil and is so strongly attracted to earth spheres that the influence of the monad cannot withdraw the reincarnating ego from the kama-rupa, then the latter with its befouled soul sinks lower and lower and may even enter the avichi. If the influence of the monad succeeds, as it usually does, in bringing about the second death, then the kama-rupa becomes a mere phantom or kama-rupic spook, and begins instantly to decay and finally vanishes away, its component life-atoms pursuing each one the road whither its attractions draw it.
SKo Kama-loka, Kama-rupa, Bhuta Kama-loka is literally the 'Desire-world'; a compound of kama -- desire, and loka -- world. Kama-loka is the invisible astral region which penetrates and surrounds the earth. The ruling force in it is desire devoid of intelligence. It is the realm of purgatory through which all entities must pass after death. Therein the Reincarnating Ego must suffer for the evil done on earth, and thus free itself of its grosser astral and kamic clothing in order that it may rise higher. Good men usually pass through the Kama-loka practically unconsciously, whereas men not so good awaken to a semi-dream state of an unhappy nature, and evil-minded men suffer a vivid nightmare. What is known as the 'Second Death' takes place in Kama-loka. This death is the separation between the immortal Reincarnating Ego and the body of lower mental and psychical energies. When the Reincarnating Ego is thus freed it enters the Devachan accompanied by the aroma of all its past experiences, while the lower part remains in Kama-loka as the Kama-rupa or 'Desire-body,' and soon disintegrates if left alone and not drawn to mediumistic seances, etc. This Kama-rupa is often called a Bhuta, a 'spook' or 'has-been'; for bhuta is the past participle of the verb-root bhu -- to be; hence the 'shell' from which the intellectual and spiritual parts have fled.
These four states of Nirvana, Devachan, Kama-loka, and Avichi can be experienced by a man right here on earth while he is awake; and a man in sleep may suffer or enjoy dreams of Kamaloka or Devachan. We are drawn in sleep and death and even in conscious life to the states whither our attractions lead us.
SD INDEX Kama-loka (Skt)
Aanru is Egyptian I 674n
early races had no, or ego II 610
Hades or I 244
limbus on Earth I 334, 463
no worse abode than I 463 &n
region of the Manes or II 374n
shells disintegrate in I 122n
WGa Kama-manas, a compound term used in Theosophical literature to designate the state of mind or manas when closely associated with Kama, or desire; it may therefore be said to be lower manas, as it is mind directed by, and functioning in, desire to a greater extent than in and by -Buddhi.
TG Kamarupa (Sk.). Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies. After that death three of the seven "principles" -- or let us say planes of senses and consciousness on which the human instincts and ideation act in turn -- viz., the body, its astral prototype and physical vitality, -- being of no further use, remain on earth; the three higher principles, grouped into one, merge into the state of Devachan (q.v.), in which state the Higher Ego will remain until the hour for a new reincarnation arrives; and the eidolon of the ex-Personality is left alone in its new abode. Here, the pale copy of the man that was, vegetates for a period of time, the duration of which is variable and according to the element of materiality which is left in it, and which is determined by the past life of the defunct. Bereft as it is of its higher mind, spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will gradually fade out and disintegrate. But, if forcibly drawn back into the terrestrial sphere whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices -- one of the most pernicious of which is mediumship -- the "spook" may prevail for a period greatly exceeding the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kamarupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire, feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. In India these eidolons are called Pisachas, and are much dreaded, as already explained elsewhere.
KT Kama Rupa (Sans.) Metaphysically and in our esoteric philosophy it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings: a form which survives the death of its body. After that death, three of the seven "principles" -- or, let us say, planes of the senses and consciousness on which the human instincts and ideation act in turn -- viz., the body, its astral prototype and physical vitality, being of no further use, remain on earth; the three higher principles, grouped into one, merge into a state of Devachan (q. v.), in which state the Higher Ego will remain until the hour for a new reincarnation arrives, and the eidolon of the ex-personality is left alone in its new abode. Here the pale copy of the man that was, vegetates for a period of time, the duration of which is variable according to the element of materiality which is left in it, and which is determined by the past life of the defunct. Bereft as it is of its higher mind, spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will gradually fade out and disintegrate. But if forcibly drawn back into the terrestrial sphere, whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices -- one of the most pernicious of which is mediumship -- the "spook" may prevail for a period greatly exceeding the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kama Rupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. In India these Eidolons are called Pisachas, -- and are much dreaded.
FY Kamarupa, the principle of desire in man; the fourth principle.
WG Kama-rupa, one of the human "principles"; "desire-form." (kama, desire; rupa, form.)
OG Kama-Rupa -- (Sanskrit) A compound word signifying "desire body." It is that part of man's inner constitution in which dwell or inhere the various desires, affections, hates, loves -- in short, the various mental and psychical energies. After death it becomes the vehicle in the astral worlds of the higher principles of the man that was. But these higher principles are nevertheless scarcely conscious of the fact, because the rupture of the golden cord of life at the moment of the physical death plunges the cognizing personal entity into a merciful stupor of unconsciousness, in which stupor it remains a longer or shorter period depending upon its qualities of spirituality or materiality. The more spiritual the man was the longer the period of merciful unconsciousness lasts, and vice versa. After death, as has been frequently stated elsewhere, there occurs what is called the second death, which is the separation of the immortal part of the second or intermediate duad from the lower portions of this duad, which lower portions remain as the kama-rupa in the etheric or higher astral spheres which are intermediate between the devachanic and the earthly spheres. In time this kama-rupa gradually fades out in its turn, its life-atoms at such dissolution passing on to their various and unceasing peregrinations. It is this kama-rupa which legend and story in the various ancient world religions or philosophies speak of as the shade, and which it has been customary in the Occident to call the spook or ghost. It is, in short, all the mortal elements of the human soul that was. The kama-rupa is an exact astral duplicate, in appearance and mannerism, of the man who died; it is his eidolon or "image." (See also Second Death)
SD INDEX Kama-rupa(s) (Skt) II 105. See also Rupas
animal-human soul II 241, 596, 632
correspondence w globes & I 153
disintegrates in kama-loka I 122n
dregs of manas remain w I 334
Earth in its, state I 260
first race had no II 116
grossest principle in man I 260
kabbalists call, shells II 111n
kabbalists' confusion re II 633n, 634
Karabtanos & I 195 &n
seat of false personality II 241
Sons of Wisdom intensify II 161
suns are, of akasa I 527n
third race first to have II 116
vehicle of desire I 153n; II 105, 593
vehicle of manas II 241
WGa Kamavasayita, one of the eight superhuman faculties. The power to suppress all desire. See Vibhuti.
SD INDEX Kamchatka
part of second race continent II 402
six-month year of aborigines of II 621
TG Kamea (Heb.). An amulet, generally a magic square.
SD INDEX Kamsa (Skt)
killed Devaki's sons II 504n, 604n
Narada & II 48
SD INDEX Kamu-mi-musubi-no-kami (Jap), one of the arupa triad I 214
SD INDEX Kanada (Hindu atomist) I 579
believed in gods I 518
gods of, & Pythagoras I 495
TG Kandu (Sk.). A holy sage of the second root-race, a yogi, whom Pramocha, a "nymph" sent by Indra for that purpose, beguiled, and lived with for several centuries. Finally, the Sage returning to his senses, repudiated and chased her away. Whereupon she gave birth to a daughter, Marisha. The story is in an allegorical fable from the Puranas.
SD INDEX Kandu (Skt) holy sage
age of ethereal man II 411
Marisha daughter of II 177
Merlin & Vivien parallel II 175 &n
Pharaoh & Sarah parallel II 174
Pramlocha & II 171n, 174-6
stands for first race II 175
TG Kanishka (Sk.). A King of the Tochari, who flourished when the third Buddhist Synod met in Kashmir, i.e., about the middle of the last century B.C., a great patron of Buddhism, he built the finest stupas or dagobas in Northern India and Kabulistan.
TG Kanishthas (Sk.). A class of gods which will manifest in the fourteenth or last manvantara of our world -- according to the Hindus.
SD INDEX Kanithi (Heb), Kain (Cain) fr II 127
SD INDEX Kanjur, The (Tib Buddhist canon)
Gyu(t) division of I 52n
108 volumes of I xxvii
GH Kansa A king of the Yadava line of the Lunar Dynasty, ruler of the Bhojas, reigning at Mathura, who deposed his own father, Ugrasena. Ugrasena was the brother of Devaka, the latter being the father of Devaki mother of Krishna. Kansa is usually called the uncle of Krishna; strictly speaking, however, he is a cousin. In spite of this relationship, he became the avowed enemy of Krishna because a prophecy had been foretold to him that a son of Devaki would cause his death. In order to prevent this from happening, Kansa imprisoned Devaki and Vasudeva in his palace and commanded that all infants born to them should be put to death. Six children were so slain, but a seventh, Balarama, was saved through the connivance of his parents. Then when Krishna was born, his parents escaped from the palace and fled from the city of Mathura, whereupon the enraged Kansa ordered all infant boys in the kingdom put to death; but the parents escaped from the realm with Krishna, and the child was brought up by cow-herds in seclusion. Kansa at length learned that Krishna had escaped destruction and made several attempts to bring about his death: as an instance, he sent Jarasandha, the king of Magadha, to battle with the young Krishna eighteen times, but that monarch was as many times defeated. Krishna finally slew Kansa, as was predicted, restored Ugrasena, but left Mathura and established his kingdom at Dvaraka. (Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 121)
SD INDEX Kansa. See Kamsa
SD INDEX Kant, Immanuel I 79n, 103
believed in spiritual worlds I 589
believed many worlds inhabited II 706
on inhabitants of other planets I 602
primeval matter of, or akasa I 598n, 601-2
primitive fluid of I 623
----- [Allgemeine Naturgeschichte . . .]
nebular theory I 149-50n, 597, 601-2
----- Critique de la raison pure
hidden & revealed Logos, monad I 614
----- Traume eines Geistersehers
immaterial natures I 133n
TG Kanya (Sk.). A virgin or maiden. Kanya Kumari "the virgin-maiden" is a title of Durga-Kali, worshipped by the Thugs and Tantrikas.
SD INDEX Kanya (Skt) Virgo, Virgin
Anaitia, Devi-durga or I 91-2
represents sakti or mahamaya I 292
SD INDEX Kanya-durga (Skt) virgin goddess, Hindu zodiac I 657
SD INDEX Kaph. See Kaf
FY Kapila, the founder of one of the six principal systems of Indian philosophy - viz., the Sankhya.
WG Kapila, a great Indian sage, who founded the Sankhya school of philosophy.
GH Kapila One of the famous Rishis. There are many sages by the name of Kapila, the last being the founder of the Sankhya (q.v.) philosophy. A legend relates that while Kapila was engaged in meditation in Patala, he was menaced by the sixty thousand sons of Sagara, whereupon the sacred flame which darted from his person immediately reduced the sixty thousand sons to ashes. "That the story is an allegory is seen upon its very face: the 60,000 Sons, brutal, vicious, and impious, are the personification of the human passions that a 'mere glance of the sage' -- the SELF who represents the highest state of purity that can be reached on earth -- reduces to ashes." (Secret Doctrine, II, p. 571)
"There are several well-known Kapilas in the Puranas. First the primeval sage, then Kapila, one of the three 'Secret' Kumaras; and Kapila, son of Kasyapa and Kadru . . . besides Kapila, the great sage and philosopher of the Kali Yuga." (Secret Doctrine, II, p. 572) (Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 74)
SD INDEX Kapila (Skt) I 207, 284 &n; II 522
Bhagavata-Purana
re II 571
chides Brahman yogis I 426n
conscious guiding power II 652
esoteric name of a kumara I 457 &n
founded Sankhya philos II 42, 571-2
Keely's force & Eye of I 563
Manu & I 585n, 600
reduces 60,000 to ashes I 563; II 570-1
rishi, born fr Wondrous Being I 207
of satya- & kali-yugas II 572
taught evolution I 186; II 259
Vishnu as, imparts wisdom II 483, 572
SD INDEX Kapilaksha (Skt) [Kapila's Eye], destroyed 60,000 men I 563
TG Kapila Rishi (Sk.). A great sage, a great adept of antiquity; the author of the Sankhya philosophy.
SD INDEX Kapilasthan (Skt), where Kapila meditated II 571
TG Kapilavastu (Sk.). The birthplace of the Lord Buddha; called "the yellow dwelling": the capital of the monarch who was the father of Gautama Buddha.
KT Kapilavastu (Sans.) The birthplace of the Lord Buddha, called the "yellow dwelling," the capital of the monarch who was the father of Gautama Buddha.
SKf Kapilavastu The birthplace of the Lord Gautama, the Buddha, and also the capital of the kingdom of his father, the King. The word is a compound of kapila -- golden or yellow, and vastu -- substance or dwelling. This compound, esoterically interpreted, refers to the sun. All the names connected with the Buddha's life are suggestive of the deep mystical content of the legend and life of a very great teacher.
SD INDEX Kapilavastu, Prince of (Gautama) I 271
SD INDEX Kapivaktra (Skt) [monkey-faced], Narada called II 48