which this monastery was built is said to have resembled the letter ཀ ka. འབྱི་ཆུའི་འགྲམ་སྤོམ་པོང་དང་ཉེ་བར་ཀ་ཐོག་ཅེས་པའི་གནས་དགོན​། (Deb. ག 26) On the bank of the Di-chu (Hbri-chu), near Pom-po, is the monastery called Kathog.

ཀ་དག​ ka-dag = ka-nas dag-pa pure from the beginning. According to the Rnin-ma School of Buddhism it means ston-pa-ñid (çunyata) emptiness, or the void ; that which is pure from the beginning : (Yig. 14) that which is not compounded, being evolved of itself, is pure from the beginning.

ཀ་སྡེ ka-sde 1. the four letters in the first group of the Tibetan alphabet, namely, 2. in astronomy consecutive numbers: (Ya-sel. 45) the order of figures in the (zodiac sign of the) crocodile is consecutive.

ཀ་པ ka-pa the first volume of a work or a series of works ; a volume or anything else marked with the letter ka.

ཀ་དྤེ ka-dpe, also expressed ka khahi dpe, an A-B-C book ; a primer.

ཀ་ཕྲེང​ ka-phren= (ka-t=heng) = ka=li the series of consonants in the Tibetan alphabet.

ཀ་མེད​ ka-med helpless, powerless.

ཀ་སྨད་སུམ་ཅུ ka-smad sum-cu lit. "the thirty (letters of the Tibetan alphabet) below the letter ཀ."

ག་རྕོམ​ ka-rtsom an acrostic; a metrical composition in which the initial letters of each line form a continuous word or sentence.

ཀ་ལི ka-li ordinarily written for the Tibetan Sanskṛt word ཀྰ་ལི (ཀ + ཡྰ་ལི).

I 1'3> kd-li=*'%t-' ka-phrefi the series of letters gen. beginning with "1 ka, i.e., the consonants of the Tibetan language : ")'*)' ta-3>T$-5)aj yi-g* a-lika-liyin "letters are of the w series, i.e., vowels, and of the "| series, i.e., consonants" (Situ. 3). I : kn-ka qrra 1. the crow. 2. the cry of the crow : "I'T^^v^ V^*' I ( Vat. kar.) "if a crow caws, wealth will be found." Tj TJ II : excrement (nursery word) ; in W. TT^'S ka-ka tan-ce= French faire caca (Ja.). 1. a small coin of Ancient India (Cs.) : TT^Ifa'g'y-gS- Mf " ka-ka-ni of the value of twenty shells (coteries)." 2. <srr^ the fourth part of a _pwr/. 3. the quarter of a mdna. 4. the seed of Alrm precatoriits, used as a weight in medicine. 5. the shell of Cyprwa moneta, used as money. I" Tj TJ'^C* ka-ka-ran the cucumber is so called in Kunawar (Jd.). ^ Ij'Tj'* ^rarrfK n. of a fabulous snowy mountain situated to the north of a river called Patru, where a medicinal plant called Tujanaya grows (8. Lam. 36). lp|' Ka-ki-ni 1. n. of a Buddhist literary work. 2. n. of a female Buddhist deity: ^q-ifa-wg-.sSc.-jj'ar'iHl-^viijXl (D. 20) " (taught) the rites concerning the goddess Kakini to the saint Mai-bye Tshan-pa." t 7 H!1'^ Ka-ku-fla n. of a river (K.d.^582}.