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





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"Kali" Quotes from Famous Books



... literally "I reverence thee, Mother!", and according to Dr G.A. Grierson (The Times, Sept. 12, 1906) it can have no other possible meaning than an invocation of one of the "mother" goddesses of Hinduism, in his opinion Kali "the goddess of death and destruction." Sir Henry Cotton, on the other hand (ib. Sept. 13, 1906), sees in it merely an invocation of the "mother-land" Bengal, and quotes in support of this view the free translation of the poem ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various


Words linked to "Kali" :   glasswort, kelpwort, Salsola kali, saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, shrub, barilla, Salsola soda, Hindu deity


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