K A S 



K ART AN, or ^fARTA^■, four fmall iflaTuls m the Ara- 

 %ian lea, at the entrance of the gulf of Curia Muria, 

 bounding it on the S.W. N. lat. 17^ 30'. E. long. 54' 

 50'. 



KARTASCHEN, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Tobolflc, on the Irtifch ; 48 miles S. of Tara. 



KARTBIRT, a town «f Afiatic Turkey, in Diarbekir; 

 48 miles W.N.W. of Diarbekir. 



KARTERON, a town of Syria, on the Euphrates; 

 10 miles S. of Ofara. 



KARTES, a town of Africa, in the country of Whi- 

 daii ; 12 miles E.of Sabi. 



KARTIKYA, in Hindoo Mythology, the offspring of 

 Siva, whofe feed failing through the hands of Agni, the 

 god of fire, into the Ganges, has given rife to other names 

 allufive to his birth, of a very extravagant nature if taken 

 literally, but which are mod likely ailronomical allegories; 

 he is hence called Agni-bhuva, and Ganga-putra. Kumara, 

 Srimana, and Skanda are others of his names. He arofe, 

 fay the Puranic legends, on the banks of the Ganges, as 

 briglit as the fun, and beautiful as the moon ; and it hap- 

 pening that fi.K daughters of as many rajas going ta bathe, 

 faw the boy ; and each calling him her fon, and offering the 

 breaft, the child affumed fix mouths, and received nurture 

 from all, whence he was called Sefhti-matriya, that is, 

 having^i- mothers. Other legends relate, that on the birth 

 of the child he was dehvered to the Pleiads to be nurfed. 

 The Hindoos reckon but fix bright ftars in that conftella- 

 tion, which is named Kritika. Thcfe fix offering their 

 breads, " the fix-headed was nurtured, and named Kartikya, 

 the defcendant of the Kritikas.'' See Kritika. 



He is, however, generally efteemed the fecond fon of 

 Siva and Parvati, the god of war, and commander of the 

 celeftial armies, and fir William Jones, who fpells his name 

 tarticeya, deems him to be clearly the Orus of Egypt and 

 the Mars of Italy ; and was convinced that the name Skan- 

 da, by which he is called in the Puranas, ha? fome connec- 

 tion with the old Sekander of Perfia, whom the poets ridi- 

 culoufly confound with the Macedonian. He is ufually re- 

 prefented with fix heads and fix arms, and fometimes 

 mounted on a peacock. Several plates of him are given in 

 Moor's Hindoo Pantheon; where, and in Af. Rel. vol. i. 

 and Maurice's An. Hill, are many particulars of this warhke 

 deity, from Puranic legends and other authorities. His 

 fakti, or confort, is always called Kaumari, after his name 

 of Kuriiara. 



KARTUNSAI, in Geography, a fmall ifland m the gulf 

 of Finland N. lat. 60' 30'. E. long. 2'/°. 



KARTUSH, a town of Turkifh Armenia, in the go- 

 vernment of Cars ; 52 miles N.E. of Ardanoudji. 



KARTUTA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Kuopio ; 20 miles W. of Kuopio. 



KARVL\, a town of Sweden; in the government of 

 Abo ; 47 miles N.N.E. of Biorneborg. 



KARUN, a town of Perlia, in the province of Chu- 

 fiftan ; 73 miles S. of Sufteri 



KARUN A, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Abo; 13 miles S.S.E. of Abo. 



KARUP, a town of Denmark, in North .Jutland ; 14 

 miles N.W. of Aalborg. — Alfo, a town of Sweden, in tlie 

 province of Hailand ; 15 miles S. of Halmftadt. 



KARZALA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Saratov, on the Choper ; «3 miles N.W. of Saratov. 



KAS, or Gli>s, called alfo Kytn and (luejche, a low 

 fertile ifland in the gulf of Perfia, feparatcd from the con- 

 tinent of Perfia bv a good channel about 12 miles broad. 

 N. lat. 26- 34'i 1. long; 54- 4'; 



KAS 



K.\s, El, or Kas Kafaron, a mountainous cape of Egvpt, 

 on the coail of the Mediterranean ; 3 miles N. of Calieh.' 

 N. lat. 30 58'. E. long. 33 ' 22'. 



KASABI, a town of Syria, on the Euphrates ; -•«: 

 miles E. cf El Der. 



KASAKURA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo; 

 22 miles E.S.E. of Taifcro; 



KAS AN.. See Kazan. 



KASB.\ITE, or Ga.sbaite, a town of Algiers, an- 

 ciently called Sa'.afa ; 50 miles S.W. of Conllantina. 



KASCHAN. See CASI!.^.s•. 



K \ SHG A R. See Casiigau. 



KASCHIL, a town of Africa, in the Lingdom of 

 Benguela. 



KASCHIN, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Tver; 60 miles N.E. of Tver. 



KASCHIRA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Tula ; 56 miles N. of Tula. 



KASCHKARANTZI, a town of Ruffia, in the go. 

 vernment of Archangel, on the White fea ; 140 miles N.W. 

 of Archangel. 



KASHAKLU, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Carama- 

 nia; ^^ miles S.W: of Cogni. 



KASHAN. See Cashan. 



KASHEKA, in the hiltoric legends of the HlmJoos, h 

 the father of a very renowned afcetic and fage named Vijha- 

 vlira ; which fee. 



KASHMIR, in Geography. See Casiimiiie. 



KASI, or Kassi, fometimes written KnJlA ; a Sanfcrit 

 name of the revered city of Benares ; the latter popular 

 name being probably a corruption of its clalTical appellation 

 Vara-nari, fo called from two rivers that form a junftion of 

 waters and name near its fcite. See Bi:>;aiies. 



Kasi, a term in the Ealt, applied to the fourth pontiff 

 of Perfia, who is alfo the fecend lieutenant civil, and judges 

 of temporal as well as fpintual affairs. 



He has two deputies, who determine matters of lefs con- 

 fequence ; particularly quarrels arifing in cofTee-houfes, which 

 make a great part of their bufinefs. 



KASILAX, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in tki 

 province of Savolax ; 29 miles E. of Kyflot. 



KASIMON', a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Riazan, on the Oka, formerly the rcfidence of a Tartar 

 prince ; 76 miles E.N.E. of Riazan. 



K,\SKAREL Mei.ik, a town of the Arabian Irak ; 

 36 miles N. of Bagdad. 



KASKASK I.'\S, a poll -town of America, and the chief 

 of Randolpii county, on the S.W. bank of a river of ihe fame 

 name, 12 miles from the mouth of the river; containing 

 about ICO houfes, many of which are well built with ilone j 

 and 467 inhabitants, of whom 47 are flaves. — .Alio, an 

 Indian nation near the river of this name in the Indiana ter- 

 ritory. In 1774 they could furnifh 250 warriors. Three 

 miles northerly of Kafkafkias is a village of Illinois Indians, 

 of the Kafkaflcias tribe, containing, in 1774, about 210 jici- 

 lons and 60 warriors. They were formerly brave and war- 

 like, but arc now degenerated and debauched. In Auguit 

 l<Sc3, governor Hamilton concluded a treaty witli the Kaf- 

 kafkias Indians, by which they ceded to the United States in 

 full right the iminenfe traft of country extending from tlie 

 mouth of the Illinois rnvr to the mouth of the Ohio ; from 

 thence to the mouth of the S.ilinc creek, below the Wabafli ; 

 thence bounded by the liighlandB, dividing the waters wliich 

 run into tlie Wabaih from tliofe which run into the Saline 

 creek ; thence by the highlands dividing the waters whicU 

 run into the Wabafh from thofc which run into the Midlfippi, 

 until it reaches the river Kalkaflcia ; thence, bv the high- 

 4T. 3 ■ hndii. 



