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Kalium

another name for potassium, whence its symbol K is derived. mythology, the last of the four Hindu corresponding to the "iron age" of classimythology, the last of the four Hindu cal mythology; it comprised a period of 432,000 solar-sidereal years. periods contained in the great Yuga, and 432,000 solar-sidereal years.

KALKI (käl'ki), in Hindu mythology, Nine are believed to be past; this one is future, and many Hindus look forward to it as Christians do to the Second Adfuture, and many Hindus look forward vent of our Lord. About 1845 a sect to have come. They soon died away. sprang up in the Nagpore country called Kalankis. They believed the 10th avatar to have come. They soon died away.

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