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noun
Cali  n.  (Written also Kali)  (Hindoo Myth.) The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.



Kali  n.  (Hind. Cosmog.) The last and worst of the four ages of the world; considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.



Kali  n.  (Bot.) The glasswort (Salsola Kali).



proper noun
Kali  n.  (Hind. Myth.) The black, destroying goddess; called also Doorga, Anna Purna.






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... buried their victims. Drawn up according to precise information furnished by several leaders of the sect, it indicated every tomb in the province of Oudh, where the majority of the worshippers of the goddess Kali were to be found. The written descriptions that accompanied the map were particularly interesting, for—like Swift, when he enumerated the benefits that would accrue to the starving Irish people if they killed their children like sheep and ate them instead ...
— Modern Saints and Seers • Jean Finot

... approached the goddess with a hymn of praise: "O Demon-slayer! Saviour! Devil-killer! Trident-holder! Joy of the wise! Protectress of the universe! Victory to thee, O best of mothers, whose feet the world adores! O fearless refuge of the pious! Kali of the dreadful ornaments! Honour and glory to thee, O kindly goddess! Be pleased to accept the sacrifice of my head in behalf of King Shudraka." Then he suddenly cut off his ...
— Twenty-two Goblins • Unknown

... in the totals of the Semitic, Chaldean, and Aryan Hindu chronology, the students of Occult Philosophy find the following fact extremely suggestive. While the period of the reign of the 10 Babylonian antediluvian kings is given as 432,000 years,* the duration of the postdiluvian Kali-yug is also given as 432,000, while the four ages or the divine Maha-yug, yield in their totality 4,320,000 years. Why should they, if fanciful and "extravagant," give the identical figures, when neither the Aryans nor the Babylonians have surely borrowed anything from each other! We invite ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... for Seidlitz powders.—White paper; Tartaric acid, thirty grains. Directions.—Dissolve the contents of the blue paper in water; stir in the contents of the white paper, and drink during effervescence. Ginger-beer powders do not meet with such general acceptation as lemon and kali, the powdered ginger ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... could be set free from the artificial fetters put round them by men, we could see on earth the living image of Kali, the shameless, pitiless goddess. I am a worshipper of Kali, and one day I shall truly worship her, setting Bimala on her altar of Destruction. For this let me ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore


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