Category: K
Kokila
Kokila bird Kokila or the Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with the closely related black-billed and Pacific koels which are sometimes treated as subspecies. The Asian koel is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of crows and other hosts, who raise…
Karnikaras
Karnikara tree Karnikara tree or bayur tree or Pterospermum acerifolium, is a flowering plant indigenous to Southeast Asia, from India to Burma. It is most likely to grow naturally along forested stream banks. The best growing conditions are a seasonally moist then dry climate with access to full sunlight. Pterospermum acerifolium is an angiosperm…
Kolahala
Kolahala Kolahala was the mountain which, maddened by lust, once attacked the river Suktimati near Chedi capital . Vasu Uparichara, beholding the foul attempt, struck the mountain with his foot. By the indentation caused by Vasu’s stamp, the river came out of the embraces of Kolahala. But the mountain begat…
Kusamba
Kusamba Kusamba, also known as Manivahana, was the third son of Vasu Uparichara, the Chedi king and Girika [Mahabharata: Shantanu, Ganga, Bhishma and Satyavati].
Kiritin
Krittika
Krittika The star cluster Kṛttikā (Sanskrit: कृत्तिका, pronounced [kɽɪttɪkaː], popularly transliterated Krittika), corresponds to the open star cluster called Pleiades in western astronomy; it is one of the clusters which makes up the constellation Taurus. In Indian astronomy and Jyotiṣa (Hindu astrology) the name literally translates to “the cutters”. It is also the name of its goddess-personification, who is a daughter of Daksha and Panchajani, and…
Keshava
Kubera
Kubera In Mahabharata Kubera is one of the four Dikpalakas – the others being Indra, Yama and Varuna. He is also the lord of wealth. Kubera Sabha Kubera Sabha is described by Narada to Yudhishthira when the former visited Maya Sabha at Indraprastha, Narada said, “Possessed of great splendour, the…
Kshatriyas
Kshatriyas In Mahabharata Kshatriya is one of the four castes – the other castes being Brahmanas, Vaishyas and Shudras.
Kokila
Kokila bird Kokila or the Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with the closely related black-billed and Pacific koels which are sometimes treated as subspecies. The Asian koel is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of crows and other hosts, who raise…
Karnikaras
Karnikara tree Karnikara tree or bayur tree or Pterospermum acerifolium, is a flowering plant indigenous to Southeast Asia, from India to Burma. It is most likely to grow naturally along forested stream banks. The best growing conditions are a seasonally moist then dry climate with access to full sunlight. Pterospermum acerifolium is an angiosperm…
Kolahala
Kolahala Kolahala was the mountain which, maddened by lust, once attacked the river Suktimati near Chedi capital . Vasu Uparichara, beholding the foul attempt, struck the mountain with his foot. By the indentation caused by Vasu’s stamp, the river came out of the embraces of Kolahala. But the mountain begat…
Kusamba
Kusamba Kusamba, also known as Manivahana, was the third son of Vasu Uparichara, the Chedi king and Girika [Mahabharata: Shantanu, Ganga, Bhishma and Satyavati].
Kiritin
Krittika
Krittika The star cluster Kṛttikā (Sanskrit: कृत्तिका, pronounced [kɽɪttɪkaː], popularly transliterated Krittika), corresponds to the open star cluster called Pleiades in western astronomy; it is one of the clusters which makes up the constellation Taurus. In Indian astronomy and Jyotiṣa (Hindu astrology) the name literally translates to “the cutters”. It is also the name of its goddess-personification, who is a daughter of Daksha and Panchajani, and…
Keshava
Kubera
Kubera In Mahabharata Kubera is one of the four Dikpalakas – the others being Indra, Yama and Varuna. He is also the lord of wealth. Kubera Sabha Kubera Sabha is described by Narada to Yudhishthira when the former visited Maya Sabha at Indraprastha, Narada said, “Possessed of great splendour, the…
Kshatriyas
Kshatriyas In Mahabharata Kshatriya is one of the four castes – the other castes being Brahmanas, Vaishyas and Shudras.