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his own celebrity is founded was afterwards brought down 
to a later period, by Fadhl Allah al Sakai. D'Her helot's 
■Biblioth. Orient. 
KHA'LIF. See Caliph. 
KHA'LITS. See Kalits. 
KHA'MI. See Kami, vol. ix. p 577. 
KHA'MIES-BERG, a clutter of mountains belonging 
to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, fituated in the 
middle of the country formerly inhabited by the Nama- 
qua Hottentots. This clutter of mountains, being the heft 
and indeed almott the only habitable part in the Nama- 
qua country, has been taken potfetlion of by the wander¬ 
ing peafantry, who, to the advantage of a good grazing 
country, had the additional inducement of fettling there 
from the eafy means of increafing their ttock of Iheep 
from the herds of the native Hottentots, who, however, 
are now fo reduced, and fcatlered among the Dutch farms, 
as fcarcely to be ccntklered a diftinet tribe of people. 
The Copper Mountains commence where the Khamies- 
berg ends, the whole furface of w hich is faid to be covered 
with malachite, or the carbonat of copper, and cupreous 
pyrites. But the ores of thefe mountains, though abun¬ 
dant and rich, are of no great value, on account of the 
total want of every kind of fuel to fmeit them, as well as 
of their very great diftance from the Cape, and from there 
being neither bay nor river where they could be put on¬ 
board of coafting veffels. In the Khamies-berg is alfo 
found, in large blocks, that beautiful fpecies of Itone, to 
which mineraiogifts have given the name of prehnite. 
KHA'MIR. See Chamir. 
KHAN, or Kan , f. [pronounced kaztmi] The name of 
an officer in Perfia and India, anfwering to that of gover¬ 
nor in Europe. There are khans of provinces, countries, 
and cities, who have different additions to diftinguilh 
them. When this title is given by the king of Delhi, it 
is fuppofed the perfon maintains two hundred and fifty 
liorfe-foldiers, of which he is the commander for thg 
king’s fervice.—Khan is the word for an inn in Perfia ; 
and in Tartary for a mercantile hall, or warehoufe. 
KHAN KHA'NAN,/ Lord of lords. 
KHAN'AKA, a town of Chafafm, on the Gihon : 
ninety miles fouth-fouth-ealf'of Urkonge, and 250 fouth- 
weft of Samarcand. 
KHAN'DELA, or Ciian'dala, a fedt of Hindoos. 
See vol. ix. p. 121. 
KHAN'GAH, a town of Egypt, formerly a place of 
opulence, enriched by the caravans which palled from 
Cairo to Syria. It contains about icoo inhabitants: 
twelve miles north-ealf of Cairo. 
KHAN'UDUN, a large lake of Perfia, in the province 
of Adirbeitzan, lixty miles long, and thirty broad ; called 
alfo the Lake of Urmia: thirty miles fouth-welt of Tabris. 
KHA'RA, a malignant being, according to Indian le¬ 
gends, who commanded a legion of 14,000 demons, like 
himfelf, in the wars of Lanka, as deferibed in the Rama- 
yana. He efpoufed the caufe of Ravena, and was with 
his followers deftroyed by Rama. 
KHA'RASM. See Charasm. 
KHAR'EJITES, the firlt heretical fedl among the Ma¬ 
hometans, which revolted from Ali in the 37th year of 
the Hegira ; and hence their name, which fignifies revol- 
ters, or rebels. This fedl commenced with 12,000 men, 
who abandoned Ali and his caufe, after having fohght 
under him at the battle of Seffein, taking offence at his 
fubmitting the decilion of his right to the caliphate, 
which Moawiyah difputed with him, to arbitration, though 
they themfelves had firlt obliged him to do it. They 
were alfo called Mohakkemites, or Judiciarians ; becaufe 
the reafon which they gave for their revolt was, that Ali 
had referred a matter concerning the religion of God to 
the judgment of men, whereas the judgment, in luch cafe, 
belonged only to God. See the article Arabia, vol. ii. 
p. 13, 14. The herelyof the Kharejites conlilted in thefe 
particulars, viz. They affirmed a man might be promoted 
to the dignity of imam, or prince, though he was not of 
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the tribe of Koreiffi, nor even a freeman, provided he was 
a juft and pious perfon, and endowed with the other re- 
quifite qualifications; that the imam, if he turned afide 
from the truth, might be depofed or put to death ; and that 
there was no abfolute neceffity for any imam at all in the 
world. When the Kharejites, who per lifted in their re¬ 
bellion, to the number of 4000, were cut to pieces by 
Ali, (fee Arabia, lit fupra,) nine of them are faid to 
have efcaped, two into Oman, two into Kerman, two into 
Segellan, two into Mefopotamia, and one to Tel Maw- 
run ; and to have propagated their herefy in thofe places, 
the fame remaining there to this day. The principal feels 
of the Kharejites, befides the Mohakkemites already-men¬ 
tioned, are fix ; which, differing in other refpedts, agree 
in abfolutely rejecting Othman and Ali ; they account 
thofe who are guilty of grievous fins to be infidels ; and 
they hold it necellary torelift the imam when he trangreffes 
the law. 
KHASA'AL, a powerful tribe of' Arabian liufband- 
men, on the eall fide of the Euphrates. They have a 
great many petty tribes of Arabs, who live in villages, 
fubjedt to them. One of thefe petty tribes comprehends 
five-and-tvventy inferior tribes, and two others forty each. 
The tribes which pradlife bulbandry appear therefore to 
be lels numerous than the Bedouins, who often unite into 
very large bodies. The tribe of Khafaal can mufter two 
thoufand cavalry, and a proportionate number of infan¬ 
try. The pacha of Bagdad made war on thefe people, 
with various fuccels. Thele Arabs are Shiites ; and this 
is one motive more to fet them at variance with the Tin ks. 
The reigning Ihiek levies cuftoms from velfels coining 
up the Euphrates. 
KHATAN'GA, a river of Ruffia, that has its fonree 
in a lake in the government of Toboilk, about lat. 68° N. 
and Ion. no 0 , and in 120 0 Ion. rulhes into a large bay of 
the Frozen Ocean called Khatanikaia Guba. This river 
purfues the greated part of its ccurfe through a low and 
very marlhy country; and the molt confiderable rivers 
which add to its waters are the Kheta and the Potigan. 
K 1 IATMANDU', the capital of Nepaul, (lands on the 
eaftern bank of the Biffirnutty, along which it runs for a 
mile. Its breadth is inconfiderable, no where exceeding 
half a mile. The molt linking objedcs which it prefents 
to the eye, are its wooden temples. Thefe buildings are 
not confined to the body of the town, but are fcattered 
over its environs, and particularly along the lides of a 
quadrangular tank or refervoir. Of the number of thele 
ltructures, colonel Kirkpatrick (in his Account of Nepaul, 
lately publilhed) gives us a very magnificent though vague 
idea, by faying, that “ there are nearly as many temples 
as houles, and. as many idols as inhabitants.” The idols 
however cannot be very few, if it be true, as he lifter- 
wards allures us, that the total number of the Nepaulefe 
deities is reckoned by the well-informed to be “ two 
thoufand feven hundred and thirty-three.” Befides thefe, 
Khatmandu contains leveral other temples on a large 
fcale, and conltrudted of brick, with two or three Hoping 
roofs, diminilhing as they afeend, and terminating in 
pinnacles, which, as well as fome of the fuperior roofs, 
are fplendidly gilt, and produce a very pifturefque and 
agreeable effedl. The houfes are of brick and tile, 
-with pitched roofs towards the llreet. They are fre¬ 
quently furrounded by wooden balconies, of open carved 
work, and of a finguiar faffiion ; the front-piece, inftead 
of riling perpendicularly, projedting in a doping diredlion 
towards the eaves of the roof. They are of two, three, 
or. four, llories, and generp.lly of a mean appearance. 
Tlie llreets are narrow and filthy. Khatmandu, with its 
dependent towns and villages, may contain about 22,000 
houfes ; but the town itfelf, the colonel thinks, cannot 
contain above 5000 houles ; and, allowing ten perfons to 
a houle (which however he thinks rather a low compu¬ 
tation), 50,000 fouls may be reckoned as the population 
of Khatmandu. As the kingdom or rajahlhip of which 
this town is the capital has been very little known till 
2 Q lately, 
