K A T 



•wTiicli lie tore away in memorial of lii; Tidory, anJ uFed 

 ■afterwards in battle by way of trumpet. -(See Sanka- 

 TiCRA.) Not finding the children in the dominions of Va- 

 runa, he defcended to the infernal city, Yama-puri, and 

 founding his tremendous fliank, or (hell, (fee Shank,) ftruck 

 fuch terror into Yama, that he ran forth to make his prof, 

 trations, and reilored the children of Kafya, with whom 

 Krithna returned to their delighted mother. 



KASYAP A, an importantcharafter, who, in different theo- 

 gonies, alTumes diflerent lines of parentage aad character. In 

 theSiva-puranahe is nude the great-grandfonof Brahma, Ma- 

 richi and Bhrigu being his immediate anccllors : and he is there 

 feigned to have married thirteen of Dakfha's fixty daughters, 

 an aftronomical allegory that has not yet been explained ; 

 tut alluding, we apprehend, to a cycle of fixty years in all 

 among the Hindoos. Sn- Wiliam Jones fufpected, and Mr. 

 Wilford has proved the whole fable of Kafyapa to be allro- 

 nomical, and the fame with the Cafliopeia of the Greeks. Ka- 

 fvapa, in fome points, correfponds in charadler with Uranus ; 

 Marichi, the offspring of Bralima, being a pcrfonification 

 of Light. Surya, or the Sun, is fometimes found men- 

 tioned as the fun or offspring of Kafyapa, and fometimes 

 he is included in the lift of the feven Rilliis ; in other re- 

 lations lie is the hufband of Diti, and the parentrof Indra, 

 Aruna, Garuda, and many of the minor deities. In Vifhnu's 

 avatara of Vamana, or the dwarf, he became incarnate in 

 tlie perfon of Kafyapa's fon, by Aditi ; and the Naklhatras, 

 or lunar manfions, (fee Nakshatha,) are, in the Inllitutes 

 of Menu, attributed to " Kafyapa, the firft produftion of 

 Brahma's head." 



KATABA, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the 

 province of Yemen, fituated in a fertile country, near a 

 river that runs into the fea at Aden, governed by a dola, 

 ■and defended by a citadel ; 75 miles N. of Aden. N. lat. 

 13= 54'. E. long. 44' 39': 



KATAL. a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the government 

 «f Sivas ; 18 miles S. of Sivas. 



KATAPANG, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, 

 ■near the N. coail of Java. S. lat. 7' 39'. E. long. 113" 

 22'. 



KATAREN, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen ; 60 miles S. of Saade. 



KATENIA, a town of Bengal; 80 miles N. of 

 Dacca. 



KATEREVI, a town of the principality of Georgia ; 

 18 miles W.S.W. of Teflis. 



KATERINENSCHSTAT, a town of Ruffia. in the 

 j^ovcrnment of Saratov, on the Volga ; 32 miles N.E. of 

 Saratov. 



KATHTIPPACAMUNCK, an Indian village in Ame- 

 rica, on the N. fide of Wabafti river, at the mouth of Rip- 

 pacanoe creek, and about 20 miles above the Lower Weau 

 towns. In 1 79 1, before its dcftruftion by generals Scott 

 and Wilkinfon, it contained 120 houfes, the beft of wliich 

 belonged to the French traders. N. lat. 4.0' 20'. \V. 

 long. 87 2'. 



KATIF, a town of Arabia, in the province of Lachfa, 

 •of fome magnitude, fituated upon the coaft, at the diftance 

 •of about five German miles from the ide of Bahhrein. The 

 inhabitants earn their fubiiftence by the pearl fiihery ; the 

 feafon for fiihing is in the hotter months of the year, when 

 the air is deemed to be very inlalnbrious. 



K.ATIMBEVOLE, atown of the ifland of Ceylon ; 36 

 miles S. of Candy. 



KATIMTUMU, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 «f Irlcutlk, on the Lena ; 60 miles E. of Oiekmindv. 



JiATIRLI, a town of Natolia ; 28 miles N. of Burfa. 



K A T 



I'ATISTI, a tovm of Natolia, on the coall of the Tea of 

 Marmora; 36 miles S. of Conftautinople. 



K AT KIN. See Catkin-. 



KATMANDU, or Catmandu, in Geography, the 

 capital of Napaul or Nepal, in a province of the fame 

 name ; called alfo Jingbu by the people of Thibet. It 

 is placed by Rennell 105 geographical miles nearly N. 

 from MaifFy, that is, in latitude 28' 6'. It is 536 Britifh 

 nn'les from Lafla, or in iiorizontal diftance 346 geogra- 

 pliical miles. According to Giufeppe, it contains about 

 iS,ooo houfes, probably yielding a population of 70 or 

 80 thoufand. (See Nepaul.1 According to colonel Kirk- 

 patricks account it is feated on the eaftern bank of the Biih- 

 mutty, along which it runs for a mde, with a breadth not ex- 

 ceeding half a mile. The moft ftriking objidls which it pre- 

 fents to the eye are its v>-ooden temples, wliicb are fcattered 

 over its environs, and particularly along the fides of a quad- 

 rangular tank or refervoir. The colonel fays, " there are 

 nearly as many temples as houfes, and as many idols as in- 

 habitants." The number of idols, according to his ftate- 

 ment, amounts to 2733. Bcfides thefe wooden temples, 

 Katmandu contains feveral others on a large fcale, conftruded 

 of brick, with two or three (loping roofs, diminilhing as they 

 afcend, and terminating in pinnacles, which, as well as fome 

 of the fuperior roofs, are fplendidly gilt, and produce a very 

 picfurefque and agreeable effeft. The houfes are of brick 

 and tile, with pitched roofs towards the ftreet, frequently 

 fm-rounded by wooden balconies, of open carved-work, and 

 of a fingular fa(hion. They are of two, three, or four 

 ftories, and generally of a mean appearance. The ftreets 

 are narrow and filthy. Katmandu, with its dependent towns 

 and villages, according to Kirkpatrick, may contain about 

 22,000 houfes; but the town itfclf, if ten people be al- 

 lowed to each hotife, which lie thinks to be a low computa- 

 tion, does not contain more than 50,000 perfons. The next 

 moft confiderable towns of Nepaul are Patn, Bhetgong, and 

 Khirtipoor. Afiatic Ref. vol. ii. p. 307. 



KATN.A, a town of Sweden, in Sudermanland ; 30 miles 

 S.W. of Stockholm. 



KATNEBLOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Kiev ; ^6 miles S. of Bialacerkiew. 



KATNIA-STANITZ, atown of Ruflia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutllv ; 64 miles N.E. of Vitimfiioi. 



KATOENE, a town of the ifland of Ceylon ; 64 miles 

 S. of Candy. 



KATOU-CARVA, in Botany, the name by which fome 

 authors have called the tree, wliofe leaves are the tamala- 

 patra, or Indian leaf of the (hops. See Malabathrl-m. 



KATOVINDEL, the name given by the authors of 

 the Hortus Malabaricus, to a genus of plants, called by fome 

 eJale, and by Linnxus^Arvz/.f. 



KATOUN-SERAI, in Geography, a town of Afiatid 

 Turkey, in Caramania ; i 2 miles S. of Cogni. 



KATSCHER, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Pre- 

 rau, with a lordfhip in Silefia, to which it once belonged ; 

 1 2 miles W. of Ratibor. N. lat. 49* 59'. E. long. 1 7 ^ 



KATTA, a town of Bootan ; 15 miles S. of Bifnee. — 

 Alfo, a town of Perfia, in Farfiltan ; 30 miles W.S.W. of 

 Yezd. 



K.ATTAH, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 

 jas ; 160 miles E.S.E. of Madian. 



KATTAYANI, in Hindoo Mythology, a name of Par- 

 vati, confort of Siva. 



KATTRON, in Geography. See Gatron-. 



K.^TUADI, a town of the Arabian Irak ; 12 miles S. 

 of Bagdad. 



4 KATUN. 



