Ka"ma (?), n. [Skr. kAma love, the god of love.]
The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
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Ka"ma (kä"mä), n. (Theosophy)
Desire; animal passion; -- supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (rOOpa) [Skr. rUpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (lO"ka) [Skr. lOka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.
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