Meaning of kama | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
2. The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   Hinduism, uncountable
3. A major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.
4. The Hindu god of love, Kamadeva
   Hinduism
5. A surname.

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Examples

“The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).”

“Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).”

“It was led by Sen. Henry Javkson (D-Wash.), who referred at some length to an IBM computer and assorted other technology we have sold the Russians for use in their vast Kama River truck plant.”

“According to Ponomarev's calculations, the Kama in the 1890s annually supplied the Volga with up to 850000 logs, of which about 250000 came from the Chusovaya, about 250000 from the Vyatka and its tributaries, 150000 from the Belaya,[…].”

“He was ordered to seek out the rebels along the Kama and the Viatka.”

“Fundamentally, the doctrine and technique of Kāma go back to primitive antiquity.”

“In Indian mythology, Kāma is the counterpart of Cupid.”

“On seeing Kāma annihilated there, the Devas and the groups of celestial damsels became frightened.”

“However, when Śiva saw the proud Kāma getting ready to let another arrow fly, he got angry.”

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