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to spare his life and allow him a place to live within his empire. Parikshit decided that Kali would live in "gambling houses, in taverns, in women and men of unchaste lives, in slaughtering places and in gold". And as long as Parikshit ruled India, Kali stayed within the confines of these five places. This act allowed Dharma to regain his legs and the earth to be relieved of much burden. However, Parikshit was later cursed to die by snake bite after hunting in the forest and throwing a dead snake on an unresponsive sage practicing austerities. Upon the emperor's death, "Kali made his way to other places like wild fire and established his power throughout the length and breadth of the whole world."
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and assisting, training and teaching Kalki on Dharma, Karma, Artha and knowledge of most ancient and necessary Wisdom with military and social perspective but also help, support and join his fight against evils as greater guidance, his marriage, his preparation for war against the asura Kali, and the
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When Parikshit raised his sword to kill Kali, the sudra stripped himself of his royal garments and prostrated himself at the emperor's feet. The emperor knew Kali tainted the world with his evil and so had no place in it and raised his sword once more. But Kali interceded again and begged the emperor
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medicine without the sage's knowledge. The sage told him that the curse would end when he was about to eat his own daughter. Once he regained his true form, Indivara taught Svarocisa the Ayurveda medication, which he used to cure Manorama's friends. He later married the three and had three sons with
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Kali was in love with ‘‘Varuthini’’ and had been rejected by her in the past. He saw how she hungered for the Brahmin, so he took on the appearance of Pravara and came before the courtesan. He led her into the bedchamber and told her to close her eyes during their sex . As they made love, Varuthini
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sacrifice and leading his armies behind the horse as it runs freely from kingdom to kingdom. If any evil king tries to stop the horse, Kalki engages them in combat. After defeating them, he continues to follow the horse until all evil kingdoms are vanquished. When Kali finally faces Kalki's forces,
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The beginning of the Kalki Purana describes Kali's lineage starting with the Brahma, his great-great-grandfather, and ending with the birth of his grandchildren. Instead of being born of poison from the churning of the ocean of milk, he is the product of a long line of incestuous monsters born from
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lessons. This skill awakened Nala from Kali's control and allowed him (with the help of Damayanti's curse and Karkotaka's venom) to exorcise the asura (demon); vomiting him in the form of poison from his mouth. Nala forced Kali's trembling spirit into a Vibhitaka tree. He then counted the fruits of
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Despite his prosperity, Svarocis was unhappy in his life and could hear the ducks and deer talking about him behind his back. One day he went hunting and took aim at a boar, but a deer came through the clearing and asked to be shot in its place. When he enquired why, the deer told him that she was
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and the other a carrier of diseases. Manorama had knowledge of a powerful spiritual weapon, but did not know how to wield it, so she taught it to Svarocisa. When the asura leaped out of the forest and grabbed ahold of the woman, Svarocis called forth the weapon. But the asura stayed his hand and
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went hunting in the forest. Just then in the middle of the way, Kali appeared before him and asked permission to enter his kingdom, which the king denied. Upon insisting, Parikshit allowed him five places to reside: where there is gambling, alcohol consumption, prostitution, animal slaughter and
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where he discovered his body had been mortally stabbed and burned during his battle with the two devas. The stench of his blood billowed out and filled the atmosphere with a foul odor. When Dharma and Satya burst into the city, Kali tried to run away, but, knowing his family had been destroyed,
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and had kept in the palace,Parikshit was attracted to the beauty of the crown and started wearing it from then on)and spoiled his thoughts. Parikshit entered the hut of a sage named Shamika as he was thirsty. He found the sage in deep meditation. He bowed to him several times but there was no
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Some Hindus considered Kali's presence in the picture to be a representation of the Muslim community. When one of the versions of these pamphlets came into the possession of a state official in 1893, he commented that the image "contained a representation of a Musalman advancing to slay the
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cow ...". One book states, "The Magistrate found Muhammadans excited because they heard a picture was in circulation representing a Muhammadan with a sword drawn sacrificing a cow, and this they considered an insult." In 1915, a color version of this picture run by the
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is of an owl. Fourth, whenever Alakshmi enters a house, families fight and turn on one another. The presence of Kali and his family on earth causes mankind to fight and turn on one another. Finally, Alakshmi is said to ride a donkey. Kali also rides a donkey in the
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response. In anger, he took a dead snake and threw it around the sage's neck. Later when the sage's son, Shringin, heard of this incident he cursed the king to die of snake bite on the seventh day. On hearing this, the king forswore the throne for his son
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die that would be used in the fixed game. Kali forced Nala to lose and, each time, he would raise the stakes higher despite the protest of his advisors and wife. Finally, Nala lost his kingdom to Pushkara. Both he and Damayanti were exiled to the forest.
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During their exile, Kali drove Nala to abandon Damayanti, who later enacted a curse against everyone that had caused the downfall of her husband. She eventually returned home after a short time as a handmaiden to the Princess of
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In another version, Kali stipulates that he would only marry the apsara if she keeps her eyes closed while they are in the forest (presumably making love). However, Kali leaves after their marriage and the birth of their son
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resided. There were many different editions of this version. For instance, one showed a woman labeled "The Hindu" waiting with bowl-in-hand for the cow's calf to finish suckling before she could get milk. A form of
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was given a magical ointment that allowed him to fly. But when he flew to the Himalayas, the ointment was washed away from the bottoms of his feet keeping him from returning home to his wife. During this time, the
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In another version of the tale, Kali enters into the Emperor's crown when Parikshit gives him permission to reside wherever there is gold. Upon returning home after offending the sage, Parikshit says to himself,
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and waited twelve long years for the right moment to strike. Because Nala had rendered himself impure by not washing his feet before his prayers, Kali was able to bewitch his soul. Kali then appeared before
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describes Kali as wearing the garments of a king' and portrays him as a brownish-skinned asura (demon) with a dog-like face, protruding fangs, pointed ears and long green bushy hair, wearing a red
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I am ill able, O Dvapara, to suppress my anger. I shall possess Nala, deprive him of his kingdom, and he shall no more sport with Bhima's daughter. Entering the dice, it behoveth thee to help me.
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and spent his last seven days listening to the discourses of sage Shuka, compiled as the Bhagavata Purana under the banyan tree of Shukratal. As prophesied, the snake king
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comment this was an example of the Sanskrit phrase "from his semen and from her thinking," meaning the child was indeed Pravara's child because she believed it was his.
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Varuthini fell madly in love with him and begged the Brahmin to stay with her forever. But eventually, he rejected her. He prayed to Agni who returned him home safely.
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dressed as a king who was beating a cow and an ox with a club. Parikshit immediately led his chariot over to the scene and angrily berated the sudra for abusing the
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coupled with his grievous wounds, he "entered his unmanifested years". This might lead some to believe he died, but one version of the Kalki Purana in the book
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To differentiate him from the goddess Kali, the asura Kali is sometimes referred to as "Kalipurush" (Kali the being), a somewhat 'understood' convention since
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really the goddess of the forest and wished to marry Svarocisa. So he embraced the deer and she turned into a beautiful woman. Together, they had a son named
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breaks down and God-worship is forsaken by man. All through the second, third, and fourth stages, man forgets the name of god and no longer offers
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per se is one of Hinduism's notoriously non-consensual phrases before which sense of it is intended in a particular usage is also indicated.
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the cow and Kali was, again, harassing her with his sword. Still, a different one deleted the woman and calf and instead portrayed Dharmaraj
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deity has his own line of offspring that work against the asura and his family to bring balance to the world. The following comes from the
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period was over. When his family takes human form on earth, they further taint the hearts and minds of mankind to bring about the end of
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There are a number of connections and similarities between Kali and Alakshmi. First and foremost, Alakshmi's sister is the consort of
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avatar to earth to defeat Kali. Second, legends say she was born either from the churning of the ocean of milk, the poison from
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abode is in gold; this was on my head; hence I had so evil a thought that, having taken a dead snake cast it on the
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and invited him to play a game of dice with his brother, guaranteeing Nala's downfall. Dvapara took the form of the
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his entire family blood line is wiped out by the avatar's generals and he presumably dies from wounds inflicted by
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and her sons who supervise evil also came from Kshirasagara ." Alakshmi is the elderly twin sister of the Goddess
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the tree and left in search of his wife and later regained his true form. Kali returned to his abode as well.
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noticed that his body became flaming hot and believed it was because his Brahmin spirit was infused with the
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says Mrityu and Bhayanak are his brother and sister. Mrityu is even represented as male instead of female.
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Sastri, Natesa S. M. Hindu Feasts: Fasts And Ceremonies: Fasts and Ceremonies. Laurier Books Ltd., 2003 (
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Years later, King Rituparna revealed to Bahuka the supreme skill of controlling the dice in exchange for
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personified. Kalki, meanwhile, battles and simultaneously kills the asura's most powerful generals,
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kept the child because of his blind love for his son and overlooked his responsibility as the King.
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below) Kali and his family were created by Brahma to hurry the dissolution of the cosmos after the
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Anti-beef eating pamphlet (1890 CE) showing Kali (far right) attempting to slaughter a sacred cow
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left this earth, Kali, "who promotes all kinds of irreligious activities", came into this world.
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Sexuality, Obscenity, And Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India.
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The remainder of the tale describes Kalki's childhood, military training under the immortal
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is his sister, Alakshmi would be a second wife because she is not directly related to him.
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in the name of the devas and all of mankind to rid the cosmos of Kali's dark influence.
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caught the attention of the colonial censors and was presumably censored in some way.
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berated the sage for enacting a curse for such a minor offence, he cursed one to be a
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After setting off to wage war against the evils of the world with his armies, Emperor
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as her husband. In anger, Kali spoke to his companion Dvapara, the personification of
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austerities on Mt. Kailas and was cursed to be captured by a asura. When her friends
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states Kali does not die but, instead, escapes through time and space to live in the
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illicitly acquired gold. Kali smartly entered into Parikshit's golden crown (which
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decisive war between the two. Kalki kicks off his campaign by performing the
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and her mate. However, this was no ordinary sudra and these were no ordinary
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In this version, Mrisha is the wife of Adharma and not Himsa or Mithya.
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bit Parikshita, who left his mortal remains behind and attained Moksha.
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drank first and Shiva last and that Vayu himself is an aspect of Shiva.
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them. He learned the languages of all creatures from Vibhavari and the
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In this version, Himsa is Adharma's wife instead of his granddaughter.
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poison created from churning the ocean or from a lineage created from
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is one of the major antagonists of Kali, it is important to note this
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Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India
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A very large detailed painting of King Parikshit about to kill Kali.
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Jagannath Dasa's Harikathamrutasara (Quintessence of Hari's Saga)
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Varuthini. Svarocisa once traveld to Mt. Mandara and was met by
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to be trampled on the battlefield. Kali retreated to the
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squeezed his neck to keep it from reaching his stomach.
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ceremony and discovered she had overlooked the deities
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These were the sons of Dharma; one of whom, 418:to discard the evil baby, Duryodhana's father 221: 2322: 1747:Graubard, Stephen R. and Everett Mendelsohn. 1288:explained he was actually Manorama's father, 874:B. K. Chaturvedi, a modern translator of the 335:Kali traveled to the great Nala's kingdom of 8: 1343:(who helped churn the ocean) or the back of 463:describes him as a huge being, the color of 776:Kali dies one-third of the way through the 647:. During the first stage of Kali Yuga, the 2329: 2315: 2307: 2238:Angelika Malinar, 'Hindu Cosmologies', in 1572: 1527: 1042:The progeny of Dharma by the daughters of 929:(hell); and twins to them, two daughters, 55: 1728:The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade 1589:Pramod Kapoor as Kali (cameo appearance) 2268: – Podcast of Kali's tale from the 2057:. Vakils Feffer & Simons Ltd, 2003 ( 1989:. University of California Press, 1980 ( 1843: 1841: 1796:"Canto 1: Creation, Chapter 18, Verse 6" 871:(a very dark and deadly sinful object). 859:(Illusion). 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Princeton University Press, 2000 ( 839:Kali is the great-great-grandson of 909:(violence), on whom he begot a son 847:(Anger) and his sister-turned-wife 632: 319:(and ultimately himself) to choose 1905:. India: Prachya Prakashan, 1979 ( 1693:. New Delhi: Diamond Books, 2004 ( 894:, which is a father purana to the 851:(Violence). He is the grandson of 706:version of the legend, during the 25: 1405:Kali's image was used in several 238:, with both vowels short; from a 27:Nemesis of Hindu deity lord Kalki 2480: 1316:One source states, "Kali's wife 799:had been destroyed, leaving his 181: 2292: – See chapters 16 and 17. 2205:press founded by Indian artist 1821:"Canto 1: Creation, Chapter 17" 992:(falsehood), and the father of 551:states the very day and moment 1464:mat maro gay sarv ka jivan hai 882:and its obnoxious offshoots." 261:of the Hindu preserver deity, 1: 2278: – The tale of Kali and 1954:Still, some traditions state 1866:"See chapters 16, 17, and 18" 1394:The color version run by the 1015:enumerates Adharma among the 708:churning of the ocean of milk 698:Churning of the ocean of milk 372:. Nala, meanwhile, saved the 1943:In another version given by 1234:(Fear) and a daughter named 988:, Adharma is the husband of 915:(falsehood), and a daughter 863:(Impropriety) and his wife, 743:was decapitated by Vishnu's 702:According to a lesser known 406:, eldest of the one hundred 1985:O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. 1539:Nala Damayanti (1921 film) 1378:Religious violence in India 1368:Contemporary representation 1255:Kali is the grandfather of 1222:Kali's sister-turned-wife, 661:. It is at this point when 473:Sanskrit-English Dictionary 253:and acts as the nemesis of 244: 233: 2869: 2159:Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 ( 1454:("Ruler of Dharma") stood 1441:paradise in which all the 1371: 769: 710:, a great poison known as 623: 438:had claimed after killing 356:Duryodhana as depicted in 272: 29: 2802: 2478: 2290:Srimad Bhagavatam: Cant 1 1975:Chapter X Samudra mathana 222: 54: 44: 2786:Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2303:(Boons received by Kali) 2133:. Reaktion Books, 2004 ( 2078:. 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Index

Kali (Demon)
Kali
Adharma

Kalki
Devanagari
Sanskrit
demon
Adharm
Naraka
Krodha
Himsa
Durukti
Alakshmi
Indic text
rendering support
question marks or boxes
Hinduism
Devanāgari
IAST
root
Kali Yuga
Kalki
avatar
Vishnu
The Gandharvas mentioned in Mahabharata

Mahabharata
gandharva
Damayanti

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