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kama

In Hinduism, one of the four prescribed aims of material life. These aims are dharma (religion), artha (prosperity), kama (sensual pleasure), and moksha (liberation). From religion followed prosperity, which in turn brought kama. When satiated, one would seek moksha - release from the cycle of birth and death.

Kama

River in the western Russian Federation, the most important tributary of the Volga; length 1,805 km/1,122 mi; drainage basin 507,000 sq km/195,753 sq mi. The Kama rises in the north of the Udmurt Republic, flowing first north then generally south through Perm, finally entering the Volga below Kazan. Its main tributaries are the Vishera, Chusovaya, Belaya, and Vyatka.

The Votkinsk, Kama, and Nizhnekamsk (Lower Kama) hydroelectric stations are situated on the River Kama. It is navigable - except for the ice-bound months of November-April - for 966 km/600 mi as far as Kerchevskiy, and at times of high water for a further 600 km/373 mi. The river is an important element of the inland waterway system of the Russian Federation.



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Kama entered the Tivoli, tall, lean, muscular, and fur-clad, the pick of his barbaric race and barbaric still, unshaken and unabashed by the revellers that rioted about him while Daylight gave his orders.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
Her ebony brows have the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and beneath her long silken lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
We had just entered Europe, having passed the river Kama, which in these parts is the boundary between Europe and Asia, and the first city on the European side was called Soloy Kamaskoy, that is, the great city on the river Kama.
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