kamala

[Bengali.] Pharm.: The powder, consisting of minute glands, adhering to the capsules of Rottlera tinct or i a , employed by the natives as a brown dye. Imported from India, and used as a remedy for tape-worm. It is, however, a potent purgative. ( Garrod .) kăm-bôu, s. [A Kurile Island word.] Bot.: Fucus saccharin us , an algal used for food in Japan and elsewhere. IMG:content-0199.png:[blocks in formation] kami-religion, s. Compar. Relig .: (See extract.) "The Japanese have consecrated by traditional reverence, and kept up by state authority, the religion of their former barbarism. This is the Kami - religion , Spirit religion, the remotely ancient faith of divine spirits of ancestors, nature-spirits, and polytheistic gods, which still holds official place by the side of the imported Buddhism and Con fuci an ism. In this ancient faith the Sungod is supreme. Below him stand all le er kamis or spirits, through whom, as mediators, guardians, and protectors, worship is paid by men. The Sun-god's race, as in Peru, is the royal family, and his spirit animates the reigning ruler, the Son of Heaven." - Tylor: Prim. Cult. (1873), ii. 350.