6r>6 K A R 
KAROU'LT, a town of European Turkey, in Be'ffara- 
bia : fixty-eight miles fouth-weft of Bender. 
KAR'PILAX, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Tavaftla-nd : fourteen miles north-eaft of Jamiio. 
KARPILOW'KA, a town of Poland,in the Palatinate 
of Kiev: eight miles north-north-welt of Kiev. 
KAR'RALEE JAN'GO, a town of Africa, in the king¬ 
dom of Kaarta: eighty miles eaft of Kemmoo. 
KARRIARPOU'R, a town of the circar of Goliud : 
fixteen miles north of Gohud. 
KARRIE'TEN, a town of Arabia, in Yemen : twenty 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Chamir. 
KARROO', f. A Hottentot^ame given, in the colony 
of the Cape of Good Hope, to vaft plains, which are in- 
terpofed between the great chains of mountains. Out of 
their impenetrable fur faces of clay, gliftening with fmall 
cryftals ol quartz, and condemned to perpetual drought 
and aridity, not a blade of grafs, and lcarcely a verdant 
twig, occurs to break the barren uniformity. The bills, 
by which thefe furfaces are fometimes broken, are chiefly 
Compofed of fragments of blue Hate, or mafles of feltfpar, 
dnd argillaceous iron-flone; and the furfaces of thele are 
equally denuded of plants as thofe of the plains. Yet 
Mr. Barrow obferves, that wherever the karroo plains are 
tinged with iron, and water can be brought upon them, 
the foil is found to be extremely productive. 
KARS. See Cars. 
KARS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Aladulia: twen¬ 
ty-five miles north-north-welt of Adana, and forty-fix 
weft of Marafch. 
KARS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kerman : 
twenty miles north of Sirjian. 
KARSABOO', a town of Africa, in Bambarra. Lat. 
313.10. N. Ion. 5. 35. W. 
KARSAMA'KI, atown of Sweden, in the government 
©f Ulea : fixty-five miles fouth of Ulea. 
KAR'SEK, an illand near the weft coaft of Eaft Green¬ 
land. Lat. 60. 35. N. Ion. 45, 20. W. 
KAR'SERON. See Kazeron. 
KARSCHIN'SKOI, a fortrels of Ruflia, on the Ural: 
a68 miles north of Guriev. 
KARSHAG'NI, a fiery expiation among the Hindoos, 
of which the following account is taken from Moor’s Hin¬ 
doo Pantheon. “ Cow-dung is a great purifier on feveral 
cccafions. It is related in the Agni-ptirana, that a molt 
wicked perfon, named Chanyaka, had exceeded every 
known poflibility of falvation. At the court of Indra 
were afiembled gods and holy men; and, as they were dif- 
courfing on fuch enormities, Indra, in anfwer to a pointed 
queftiop, faid that nothing certainly could expiate them 
accept the karfhagni. It happened that a crow, named, 
from her friendly difpofition, Mitra-kaka, was prefent; 
and Ihe immediately flew and imparted the welcome news 
to the defpairing (inner, who immediately performed the 
karlhagni, and went to heaven. This expiation confifts 
in the viflitn covering his whole body with a thick-coat 
_of cow-dung, which,'when dry, is fet on fire, and con- 
fumes both fin and linner. Until revealed by the crow, 
this potent expiation was unknown ; and it has lince been 
occafionally reforted to, particularly by the famous San- 
kara-Charya. The friendly crow waspunilhed for her in- 
difcretion ; and forbidden, and all her tribe, afcenfion to 
heaven, and was doomed on earth to live on carrion.” 
KAR/SHE, a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan : fix miles eaft 
cf Jarun. 
KAR'SIII. See Nekshab. 
KARSISA'I, a river of Armenia, which runs into the 
Aras twenty miles fouth of Anifi. 
KARSIT'ZA, a river of Sclavonia, which runs into 
the Drave fix miles north-weft of Efzek. 
KAR'SKOI, a fettlement of Ruflia, in the government 
of Archangel, at the mouth of the Kara: 600 miles eafi- 
iiorth-eaft of Archangel. Lat. 68. 35. N. Ion. 64. 14. E. 
KAR'SKOI MO'RE, or Karskoi Sea, a part of the 
k a n 
Frozen Ocean, between the continent of Ruflia and Nova 
Zembla, extending from lat. 70. to 75. N. Ion. 61. to 
68. E. 
KAR'SKOI ZA'LIV, or Gulf of Karskoi, a large 
bay of the Frozen Ocean, which lies to the fouth of the 
Karlkoi Sea. Lat. 68. to 70. N. Ion. 62. to 69. E. 
KARSIU'RUSK, a town of Eaft Greenland. Lat. 61. 
10. N. Ion. 45. W. 
KARS'TORP, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : forty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Jonkioping. 
KAR'STULA, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Wafa : eighty-five miles eaft of Wafa. 
KAR'SUN, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Simbirlk r fixty miles vveft-fouth-weft of Simbirfk. 
KAKSYTSIAK', a town of Eaft Greenland. Lat. 60. 
16. N. Ion. 43. W. 
KAR'TAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
KAR'TAL, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, on 
the coaft of the Sea of Marmora: forty miles weft of Ifmid. 
KAR'TAN, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
KAR'TAN, a river of Saxony, which joins the Old 
Elbe near Wittenberg. 
KAR'TAN, or Martan, four fmall iflands in the 
Arabian Sea, at the entrance of the gulf of Curia Muria, 
bounding it on the fouth-weft. Lat. 17. 30. N. Ion. 54. 
50. E. 
KARTASCHEU', a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobollk, on the Irtifch : forty-eight miles fouth 
of Tara. 
KART'BIRT, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Diarbekir : forty-eight miles welt-north-weft of 
Diarbekir. 
KAR'TEH, a town of Perfia, in Chorafan : ten miles 
weft of Tabas Kileki. 
KARTERON', a town of Syria, on the Euphrates: ten 
miles louth of Ofara. 
KAR'TES, a town of Africa, in the country of Wlii- 
dah : twelve miles eaft of Sabi. 
KARTIKY'A, in Hindoo mythology, the offspring 
of Siva, whofe feed falling through rite 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 moft likely aftronomical allego¬ 
ries ; be is hence called Agni-bhuva, and Ganga-putra. 
Kumara, Srimana, and Skanda, are others of his names. 
He arole, fay the Puranic legends, on the banks of the 
Ganges, as bright as the fun, and beautiful as the moon; 
and it happened that fix daughters of as many rajas, go¬ 
ing to 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./# mothers. Other legends relate, 
that on the birth of the child he was delivered to the 
Pleiads to be nurfed. The Hindoos reckon but fix bright 
ftars in that conftellation, which is named Kritika. Thefe 
fix offering their breads, “ the fix-headed was nurtured, 
and named Kartikya, the defcendant of the Kritikas.” 
He is, however, generally efteemed the fecond fon of Siva 
and Parvati, the god of war, and commander of the ce- 
leftial armies ; and fir William-Jones, who fpells his name 
Carticeya, deems him to be clearly the Orus of Egypt, 
and the Mars of Italy, and was convinced that the name 
Skanda, by which he is called in the Puranas, has fome 
conneftion with the old Sekander of Perfia, whom the 
poets ridiculoufly confound with the Macedonian. He is 
ufually reprefented with fix heads and fix arms, and fome¬ 
times mounted on a peacock. 
KARTUNSA'I, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland. 
Lat. 60. 30. N. Ion. 27. E. 
KAR'TUSH, a town of Turkifh Armenia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Cars : fifty-two miles north-eaft of Arda- 
noudji. 
KARTU'TA, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Kuopio : twenty miles weft of Kuopio. 
KA'RUN. 
