K A i\r 



:ies defire, a fenfe whicli it alfo bears in ancient and 

 ■rn Perlian." Kimdeo is a more popuhar way of ex- 

 tigf his name. He is alio called Makara-ketu. at- 



K A M' 



i? Jo ftrong, that bee? a;-e faid not to extrafl honey from it ; a 



i-iicumftancc that cciikl not efcape the keen eye nt the llwi- 



doo poets, and they accordingly imagine the champa to be 



;; to the filh ii; his banner, which i? faid to be the name iadly mortified at tiie negleCl. They have, however, con- 



horned (hark : Makara i? alio the zodiacal fign Ca^ 

 c jrn. Kandarpa, meaning love, is another of liis niimes ; 

 n-.d Puflipa-danva, or with a ioiv ofjfo'uvrs, Mara is an- 

 other. Anansra means the incorporeal, derived from a very 

 popular fable of Kama having been reduced to a mental ef- 

 Cence bv Siva ; thus related in the Ranuiyana, b. i. feit. 22, 



Kandarpa, the wily 



!idin;r Sl'hanu, the lord of tranflated from the Saufcrit : 



foled it by dedicating it to Kriihna, the black deity ; as 

 thej-, contrary to the notion of fome European naturahds, 

 coiifider the \mion of yellow and black as peculiarly beauti- 

 ful. The champa is farther confo'ed by the preference it has 

 obtained in bedecking the gloify locks of black-haired dam- 

 fels, asjuft noticed; and nj the following llanza, hterally 



the crods, while, with uplifted arra, he was engaged in facred 



hou art not honoured by the ill-difpofed be?. 



ifterities, met the defert of his crime from the eye of the why, O Champaka ! doll thou fo heavily lament. The 



great Rudra — all his members, being fcorchcd with fire, fell locks of lotas-eyed damfels, refembling the frelh dark clouds 



from his body ; he was thence called Ananga (bodilelV) and adorning the flcy : let thefe cmbellirti thee." 

 the place where it happened Kama (dehre). ' His name of The A mer, mentioned in the extradf from the hymn, is 



Smara, the ideal, may refer to his mother Maya, meaning alfo called amra, and am/a, and is faid by fome to be the 



ilulion. Madan, Madamat, aiid Makadamat, major Moor, man^o flower. Dry Nakefer is a handfome flower with 



from whofe Hindoo Pantheon this article is taken, deems white and yellow petals. The Bela is a beautiful fpecies of 



derived from a root fignifying f'weetnefs and mtox'icat'ion, or jafmine. 



pleafurable merriment, but not approaching to drunkennefs. Among a refined people, advantageoudy fituated in a low. 



Kama is faid to have been the Ion of Kriflva and Ruk- latitude, we naturally cxpeft to find love, in all its vail va-- 



Kama is 



meni, that is, incarnated in a fon of theirs, and then named 



Pradyamna, the adventures of whofe fon Anirudha 



riety of relations, no inconfidcrable proportion of their oc- 

 cupation and amufement. Books and tales on amatory to- 



the beautiful Ulha are the fubjeA of a pretty tale, and a very pics are very abundant in India, and in common lif;.'allufion 



interefting drama. 



The banner of Kama, a filh 

 w/5ifl«, or vehicle, the parrot, 



are conftantly occurring to Kama and his excitations. The 



red ground, and his ode, tranflated fiom the Sanfcrit, with which we fhall con- 



lurl, have doubtlefs their elude this article, is a popular canticle on a fellival held at 



allufions ; the former pofTibly, as major M. conceives, to the the full moon of the month Chaitra, in honour of Kama- 



ftimulatincr nature of that fpecies of food ftirring the blood deva, attended by mufic, bathing, and feftive jollity. It 



to aid Kamdeo's ends ; and perhaps the enfanguined colour- mull be recoUefted that Kama was incarnated as a fon of 



ing, and extreme beauty of the hir't, and, like the fifh (and Kriflina, who being Vifhnu is called by one of his names, 



the dove of weftern mythologifts) its fuppofed w/^Wy/^a^ Madhav • - -^ ■ ■■ "- 



the fecond llanza. The three firil llanzas 



tendency as food, may have had a Ihare in guiding a feleciion confiil chiefly of compound words forming names of Kama, 

 of attributes for the ardent deity. Tlie foft affedtion and for inftance, Pufhpa-danva, with a flowery -bow ; Makara- 

 fabled conftancyof the dove may have weighed with the keta, fi(h-bannered, &c. 



Greeks ; although conftancy may not, perhaps, in ftriilnefs, 

 be a charaAeriilic of love. 



Hail, god of the flowery bow .' Hail, warrior, with 

 a fifh on thy banner ! Hail, powerful divinity, who caufeth 



Sir WiUiam .Tones has addrefled a fpirited hym.n to this the finnnefs of the fagc to forfakc him, and fubdueft the 



guardian deities of the eiglit regions ! 



2. " O Kandarpa ! thou fon of Madhava. O Mara! 

 thou foe of Sambara. Glory be to thee who loveil the god- 

 defs Reti : who fpringeft from the heart. 



3. " Glory be to Madana ; to Kama ; to lu'm who is 

 formed as the god of gods ; to him, by whom Brahma, 

 Vilhnu, Siva, Indra, are filled with emotions of rapture ! 



4. " May all my mental cares be removed ! all my cor- 

 poreal fuilerings terminate ! May the object of my foul be 

 attained, and my felicity continue for ever." Hin. Pan. 



KAMA-DHOK, } names of 5W/.i; which fee. 

 KAMAK, in Geography, a town of Turkifli Armenia, - 

 on the Euphrates ; 10 miles S.S.W. of Arzingen. 



KAMAKURA, a town of the ifland of Niphon, in the ■ 

 The Champa or Chumpa, ormore correftly Champaka, is gulf of Jedo. N. lat. 3,-^ 10'. E. long. 139° 40'. — Alfo, 

 a polyandrian polygynian flower, the micheha of European an ifland of Japan, near the S. coaft of Niphon, about three 

 botanills ; it is of two forts, white and yellow ; fmall, and miles in circuit, having its coafts fo precipitous, that a crane 

 in its foliage like an expanded rofe-bud. Gardeners make is ufed to raife the freight firom the boats. This is ufed as 

 and expofe for fale, chaplets and long fir 



deity. The following flanza defcribes Vafanta preparing the 

 bow and fliafts for his mifchievous friend. The flowers with 

 which the five arrows are tipped are of a heating infiarr.in; 

 quaUty, denoting that it is through the fenles that love' 

 ftafts are felt, 



" He bends the lufcious cane, and twifts the firing 

 With bees ; how fweet ! but ah ! how keen their fling 

 He with five flow'rets tips thy ruthlefs darts, 

 \\niich through five fenles pierce enraptured hearts : 

 Strong Champa, rich in odo'rous gold ; 

 Warm Amer, nurs'd in heavenly mould ; 

 Dry Nakefer, in filver fmiling ; 

 Hot Kitticum our fenfe beguiling ; 

 And lail, to kindle fierce the fcorching flame, 

 Lovefliaft, which gods brigl-~. Bela name." 



1 of the blolTc 

 vhich'loofe women, on the fuppofition that its fragrance ex 



a Hate prifon. 

 KAMAL, 



or Kamal.a, the Sanfcrit name of the 



favourable fenfations in the votaries of Kama, decorate lotus, a plant efteemed by the Hindoos, as well as by the 



their hair with, and 



id their necks 



fragrance is, a.icient Egyptians, as very facred and mylle 



however, fo potent, that nerves unaccuflomed to it can LoTUS, or NyMPH.*:A, or whatever word under which 



fcarcely bear it within doors 



Another flower, called ma^ry, Egyptian fuperftition, connefted with the lotus, may be 



iiofthefamedefcription, and may, perhaps, be one of thn'fe noticed. We ftiall give a (hort article under LoTfs. 

 cUnkallynamed in thehymn. The odour of the champa An cxtenfive clafs of Hindoo plulofopher*, being Nep- 



tumlh, 



