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became devotion, duty, humble-hearted ne , and patience—the perfume of the heart. Kama-dhenu. A common image of the earth-cow in Indian bazaars. Kama-lat a. The “bindweed of love”—the phallus, according to Prof, Angelo de Gubernatis (Mythol. des Plantes, i, p. 132), one of many shrubs and flowers sacred to Kama, Kamaon. The Almora district, in the Him a lay as in N.W. India, full of the rude-stone monuments and serpent shrines of Khasias and other non-Aryans. Kamarila. A teacher of Vedas, a Bhatta Brahman of Behar, Hiuen-Tsang in our 7th century called him a “dangerous Brahman enemy of Buddhists.” Mr Justice Telang places him about 590 to 650 a.c.; and Mr Fleet makes his contemporary Sankar-acharya to live 635 to 655 B.c., but Mr Pathak places him later (see Jowrnal Bombay Rl. Asiatic Society, 1892, xlix). He is said to have persecuted Jains, and Buddhists, from the Him a lay as to Adam’s Bridge, or throughout India (see Subandha): they revolted against the Mimansa system, and the neo-Brahmanism of the age, but the persecution was not an actual war of soldiers. Mr Pathak points out that Kamarila (in his Tantra Vartika) often quotes Bhartri-hari (author of the Vakyapadiya) who died in 650 a.c., and was famous as a grammarian a century later. The question of date is important in the history of the decline of Buddhism, and Mr Pathak thinks that both Kamarila, and Sankar-acharya lived about 700 to 750 a.c.; and Sur is var a 750 to 838 a,c. Sir W. Hunter (Imp. Gaz. India, iv, 298) says that Kamarila journeyed in S. India “in the 8th century” a.c., and “commanded princes and people to worship one God,” This is the earliest notice of Theism, coming from the great source of Hindu learning—the uplands of Mathila or N. Behar.