KALADA 371 - KALAKEYA(S)

others asked him to choose any boon, he said that he KALAKAKSA. An . He was killed by Garuda. wanted nothing but chanting the Lord's name and (M.B. Udyoga Parva, Chapter 105).

mantras. Brahma insisted . Again, on the brahmin's KALAKAMUKHA ( KALAKAMMUKA) A Raksasa. choosing some boon or other, and then he removed He was the brother of Prahasta, Ravana's Minister. (For himself to the northern planes of the Himalayas, where Genealogy, see under Prahasta). During Sri 's also he continued chanting mantras. There too his efful- life in the forest Kalakamukha was also among Khara, gence became so powerful that deputed celestial Dusana and others. The other eleven members of that women to obstruct his Japa, but they could do nothing group were Syenagami, Prthugrlva, Yajnasatru, Vihah- in the matter. Then Indra deputed Kala to end the gama, Durjaya, Karavlraksa, Parusa, Meghamali, brahmin's life, but he failed in the attempt. Ultimately Mahamall, Sarpasya and Rudhirasana. (Valmiki Rama- King Iksvaku came to the brahmin and asked for half yana, Aranya Kanda, 26th Sarga). the power he :had earned by his , which the KALAKANYA. Daughter of Kala (). (See under brahmin readily granted. And, Iksvaku became thus Puranjana) . famous all over the worlds. (Kathasaritsagara, - KALAKAVRKSlYA. An ancient Saint. During the prabhalambaka) . reign of the King Ksemadarsin in the country of KALADA. An urban region in ancient India. Kosala, his subjects were put to great sufferings under (Bhisma Parva, Chapter 9). the misrule and corruption of his courtiers. At that time, who was a friend of Ksemadarsin and a KALADANTAKA (KALADANTA). A serpent born in Kalakavrkslya to Kosala Vasuki's dynasty. It was burnt to death at the ser- reputed sage, came with a caged crow. The went about the to know Kaka- pent yajna of Janamejaya. (Adi Parva, Chapter 57). sage country claiming vidya" (VayasI vidya) which a crow could be made KALADVIJA. A serpent, which attained salvation. The by to tell events. the was round story of this naga, which was at first a Sudra is told in past Actually, sage going the in order to first-hand information chapter 16 of the Padma Purana as follows: country gather about the corrupt practices of the King's men. After Once upon a time there lived in Karavlrapura a very acquiring knowledge of the exact state of affairs in the selfish Sudra called Kaladvija, who was sentenced by in country, Kalakavrkslya reached the palace. Under the Kala to live hell for four Manvantaras. After living cloak of the crow's words he exposed some of the in hell the whole of the period, he was born as a naga impro- of the Minister. the Minister and suffered much in the crevices of a stone. While prieties King's Naturally, was furious and by his secret instructions his servants living thus, on an Asvina purnima (Full moon day in shot the crow to death that same On the next the month of Asvina), it threw out some fried paddy night. day, the sage himself went to the and convinced andKaudi (shells) which fell before Visnu. At once the King him of the Minister's guilt. The King accepted the Lord redeemed it from all its sins, and on its death, and about a over- in due course, the attendants of Visnu took him in a sage's suggestions brought thorough .haul of the administration or divine chariot to the Lord. by punishing dismissing the culprits. (M.B. Santi Parva, Chapter 82). KALAGHATA. A brahmin scholar in the . He was In , Sand Parva, Chapter 106 we find a member of the assembly at the serpent yajna conducted that this sage once advised Drupada to make a treaty by Janamejaya. (Adi Parva, Chapter 53) . with King Ksemadarsin. Kalakavrkslya was a sage who KALAHA. Wife of a named Bhiksu who was flourished in Indra's assembly. (M.B. Sabha Parva, an inhabitant of the of Saurastra. This woman city ^ Chapter 7). used to do the of what her husband only just opposite ^KALAKETU. A renowned Asura Emperor who was the asked her to do and so Bhiksu it a rule to ask her kept son of , the wife of Kasyapa. Once he abducted to do the opposite of what he wanted her to do. But Ekavali, the wife of Ekavira and went to (under- one day he asked her to float thesraddha pinda in the world) . Ekavira fought a fierce battle with Kalaketu river Gariga, and she threw it in Saucyakupa. As a and recovered Ekavali. (See under Ekavira) . result of that she was born in a demoniac womb. But KALAKEYA(S). (KALAKHANJAS). Dharmadatta got her purified by the Dvadalaksari 1) Birth. The who were born to Kala (Kalika) mantra and giving her half the virtue accrued him. by the son of Marici and Brahma's By virtue of this they were reborn as Dasaratha and by Kasyapa Prajapati, grandson. Kausalya. (Ananda , Sarakanda ; Uttara- General. is not the name of khanda,Padma Purana) . See also under Dharmadatta. 2) "Kalakeya" proper a Asura. The sons of Kala are all KALAJNA(S). A synonym of the Kalakeyas. (See particular (Kalika) called number about under Kalakeya) . collectively Kalakeyas. They under the KALAKA (KALIKA). One of the daughters ofDaksa. 60,000. Sometimes they fought leadership of at other times under other Kasyapa married her. Mahabharata, Vana Parva, Vrtrasura and Asura Chapter 183 states that Kalakeya and Narakasura were leaders. born to Kalaka by Kasyapa. (Valmiki Ramayana, 3) and the Kalakeyas. Once the Kalakeyas Aranya Kanda, Chapter 14) . In Mahabharata Aranya started a campaign of hatred against Bruhmanas. At Parva, Chapter 174 we find that Kalaka once received nightfall they used to enter Brahmana premises and from Brahma, a boon that her sons would never be commit murders, disturb their yagas, etc. The killed. complained to the sage Agastya. Agastya set out to KALAKA. An Asura born to Kalika by Kasyapa. capture the Kalakeyas, who were alarmed and hid (Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kanda, Chapter 14). themselves in the ocean. Agastya dried up the ocean by KALAKAKSA. A warrior of Skan'da . (M.B. Salya drinking it. But some of the Kalakeyas escaped and Parva, Chapter 45, Verse 69). fled to Patala. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 101).