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noun

Kama n.

The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

Desire; animal passion; Note: supposed to create the kama rupa, a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called kama loca, until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.

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Etymology of 'Kama'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... period the relations between the Guebres and the Parsis were sufficiently close. As far back as 1527, one Kama Asa, from Cambay, had gone to Persia and procured a complete copy of the Arda-Viraf-Nameh. In 1626 the Parsis of Bharooch, Surat, and Naosari sent to Persia a learned man of Surat, Behman Aspandiar, charged with numerous questions; he brought ...

— Les Parsis • D. Menant

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