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






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"Kali" Quotes from Famous Books



... haunted by elephants which, with pensive eyes, gazed at the train as it passed. The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, ...
— Around the World in 80 Days • Jules Verne

... of these seven flames of the Fire, with their surface translations, are as follows: Kali, Dark-blue; Karali, Terrible; Mano-java, Swift as Thought; Su-lohita, Deep-red colour; Su-dhumra-varna, Deep-purple colour; Ugra or Sphulingini, Hot, Passionate, or Sparkling; Pradipta, Shining, Clear. These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things ...
— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead

... Further down the body was another circling belt, showing less dark against the black trunk. Then, even as I puzzled to know what the thing was, a memory slid into my mind, and straightway, I knew that I was looking at a monstrous representation of Kali, ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson



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



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