(p. 243) kumbhaka a physio-religious practice of controlling or suspending one's breath. 31)

(p. 253) kēna why. n. one of the books of the Upanishads. ̃না conj. because, since. 15)

(p. 194) kathaka a professional narrator of scriptural and mythological stories (usu. কথকঠাকুর); a speaker. ̃তা n. professional practice of narrating scriptural and mythological stories. 86)

(p. 194) kañculikā, kañculī bodice, brassiere, a modesty vest. 9)

(p. 208) kalakabajā machinery. 41)

(p. 243) kurara the osprey. fem. কুররী the female osprey. 48)

(p. 219) kājakarma activities; occupations. 13)

(p. 220) kātukutu tickling (with the hand esp. in the arm-pit); titillation. কাতুকুতু দেওয়া v. to tickle; to titillate. 58)

(p. 208) karmānusārē according to one's deeds or works (esp. those done in a previous existence). 24)

(p. 220) kāṭana act of cutting or hewing or cleaving or chopping or carving or mowing or lopping or trimming or paring or amputating or incising or operating or biting or eating or penning through or striking off or deducting or digging or sinking or drawing or painting or writing out or mending or sharpening or refuting or protesting or constructing or capping or reciting or picking or pinching or passing or dispelling or dispersing or lifting or giving the slip to or being sold or selling or being in demand or having recognition or flowing or coming out or being in the act of doing etc. (see কাটা v.). 18)

(p. 248) kṛtābhiṣēka anointed for installation or enthronement; installed, enthroned. 46)

(p. 238) kukarma, kukārya a wicked act; a sinful act; a blameable act; a mischief. ̃কারী, কুর্কমা a. given to doing wicked or sinful or blameable act; given to mischief-making. n. a performer of a wicked or blameable act; a sinner; a mischief-maker, an evil-doer. কুকর্মান্বিত, কুকর্মাসক্ত a. given to doing wicked or sinful or blameable act. কুকর্মী a. same as কুকর্মকারী । n. a performer of a wicked or blameable act; a sinner; a mischief-maker; a bungler; a botcher. 11)

(p. 240) kuta toll. ̃ঘর n. a toll-house on a waterway. ̃ঘাট, ̃ঘাটা n. a toll station on a waterway. 35)

(p. 262) krūra merciless, unkind, hard-hearted; cruel, envious, malicious, spiteful; crooked; wicked; malignant. ̃কর্মা a. one who performs horrible or cruel deeds; merciless. ̃তা n. mercilessness, unkindness, hard-heartedness; cruelty; envy, malice, spite; crookedness; wickedness; malignance, malignancy. ̃মতি a. crooked-minded, malevolent. 38)

(p. 220) kānāḍ়ā an Indian musical mode sung at night. 73)