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2485 kālarātri [S.] n. lit. "the black night"; time of transition between Mahāṣṭamī and Mahānavamī, which occasions special worship and the major Dasaĩ sacrifices. t.t.
2682 kalaśa [S.] var. kalasa; n. water vessel, jar, usually smaller than a ghaḍā. t.t.
3027 kalasyāunī var. kalasyānī; n. woman who carries the jar (kalaśa) in auspicious processions, such as that of the phūlapātī or during marriage. t.t.
2248 kalavāra n. 1) a caste group living in Terai of Nepal. According to the Mulukī Ain's caste hierarchy the Kalavāras fall under the Water-unacceptable but Touchable caste class, such as, Hindu Dhobī, Kulu, Kasāī, Mleccha etc. (MA-54.156.6). t.t.
2760 kaliyuga [S.] n. last and supposed to be the most degenerated of four ages within the cycle of four yugas, the present age according to Puranic time reckoning. t.t.
2314 kallāra var. kalāra, kaldāra, kalldāra, kaladāra; n. a gold coin issued under Mughal emperors t.t.
2849 kallī n. an anklet made of silver or gold. t.t.
2457 kalyānadhana n. hidden treasures (Adhikari 1984: 350) and “unclaimed wealth or property“ (Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 186) that acrued to the state. t.t.
1991 kāmadāra var. kāmḍāra; n. steward, manager, agent. t.t.
2524 kamānḍarī kitābakhānā var. kamyānḍarī°; n. personnel office of the commander-in-chief maintaining a book or a register recording the names and emoluments of all the civil and military employees of the state. It was set up by Jaṅga Bahādura Kũvara Rāṇā in 1848. Its executive head was usually a subbā or a kharidāra (Kumar 1967: 103) t.t.
384 kamārī var. kamāri; n. a “full” slave who was treated as a commodity and could be transferred as property. t.t.
963 kāmī var. kāmi; n. 1) blacksmith, iron-worker, (mil.) armourer. 2) The 7th lowest caste (superior to Cyāmes, Poḍhes, Vādīs, Gāinyās, Damāī̃s and Kadārās, and similar to Sārkīs) among the Untouchables in the Mulukī Ain’s caste hierarchy (MA-54.160.7). t.t.
1995 kāṃjokho var. kaṃjokhā, kanjokhā; n. a category of sacrificial buffaloes. Under the assumption that the list given in E_2779_0005 provides a grading of bulls according to either size or age, the kanjokhā is the second, bigger than kaṭuvā, but smaller than malauṭo and satāra t.t.
2512 kampanī [fr. Engl. company] var. kampani; 1) n. a limited company; 2) n. a military company (cf. discussion under kampu); 3) adj. belonging to the government; 4) n. an Indian rupee (see also kampanī rupaiyā). t.t.
2796 kampanī rupaiyā [kampanī + rupaiyā] var. kaṃpanī rupaiyā; abbr. as kampanī ru, kamru, kaṃru etc.; n. a currency introduced by the East India Company in India. t.t.
2293 kampu [from E.] var. kaṃpu; n. 1) “regular army“ (Adhikari 1984: 351); the Kampu Daphadarakhānā was responsible for dealing with land assignments for the kampu (Whelpton 1991: 283). However, the exact structure of the kampu still remains obscure. 2) one of three categories of army units in the early 19th century, the other two being palṭana and kampanī or company (Hamal 1995: 33). A kampu comprised different palṭanas (M.C. Regmi 1979). According to Hamal (1995: 32), however, in the early 19th century those companies stationed in the Kathmandu Valley and under the command of the general were called kampu, while those outside palṭana. t.t.
1354 Kampu Daphadarakhānā [kampu + daphadarakhānā] n. office responsible for dealing with land assignments for the kampu (Edwards 1975: 113; Whelpton 1991: 283). t.t.
2533 kamyāṃḍiṅ janarala [fr. E.] var. kamyāṃḍīṅga janarala; n. commanding general, military rank below commander-in- chief general (kamyāṇḍara ina cipha janarala) and above general (janarala) (cf. Kumar 1967: 66, 97f.). t.t.
1876 kamyāṇḍara ina cipha janarala [fr. E.] mod. N. kamāṇḍara °; var. kamyāṇḍara īna cīpha janarala; n. commander-in-chief general, formal head of the army; second in the Rāṇā hierarchy and first in the Rāṇā roll of succession. t.t.
2174 kanamā var. kanavā; n. an areal measurement unit, with 16 kanamā equalling 1 ropanī. t.t.
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