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h?is frequently been published with the latter work. See Griitz, Geschichie ihr Judeii, ix, 319 sq. ; Zunz, Zur Geschichte u.L{teratU7-, p. 230 sq. ; Jost, Gesck. d.Jtiden- ■ tkums, iii. 129 ; Flirst, Biblioth. Jud. ii, 172 sq. (i. II. W.)
Karpas. See Greks ; Cotton.
Kar'tah (lleb. A'aW«/j', nn"i|3, city; Sept. K«p- ^av V. r. Kuap:), a town in the tribe of Zebulon, as- signed, with its suburbs, as one of tlie places of residence for the Levites of the family of Merari (Josh, xxi, 34). It is there mentioned between Jokncam and Dimnah, the fourth city named being Nahalal; but the parallel passage (1 Chron. vi, 77) gives but two cities, and these different, namely, Kimmon and Tabor, the first of these being probably a preferable reading for Dimnah, and the latter a collective for two others, Jokneam being in the same connection (ver. 08) separately attributed to the Kohathites along with other places on Mt. Ephra- im, near which it lay. Kartah is doubtless identical with the Kattath elsewhere spoken of in the same as- sociation (Josh, xix, 15). Van de Yelde suggests (J/e- 7)ioif, p. 327) that it is "possibly the same with el- Ilarte, a village with traces of antiquity on the banks of the Kishon," not very far from its junction with wady Melek ; the ruins being on the teU Hiirteyeh, on the op- posite side of the river (^Narrative, i, 289).
Kar'tan (Heb. A'ar^a?j', "ri"i|^, double city, an old dual from »^"^p; Sept. KapBch' v. r. Qif.ii.Lwv and Nof/(- /xwf), a town of Naphtali, assigned to the Gcrshonite Levites, and appointed to be one of the cities of refuge (Josh, xxi, 32). In the parallel passage (1 Chron. vi, 76) it is called by the equivalent name of Kirjathai ji. The associated names suggest the probability of some locality near the north-western shore of the Sea of Ti- berias, perhaps the ruined village marked as el-Katanah on Van de Velde's map, on wady Furam, about midway between Lake Tiberias and the Ilulch.
Kartikeya is the name of the Hindu Mars, or god of war, who is represented Ijy the Pnranic legends as having sprung from Siva after a most miraculous fashion. The germ of Kartikeya having fallen into the Ganges, it was on the banks of this river, in a meadow of Sara grass, that the offspring of Siva arose ; and as it happened that he was seen by six nymphs, the Krittikfis (or Pleiades), the chUd assumed six faces, to receive nurture from each. Grown up, he fulfilled his mission in killing Taraka, the dnemon-king, whose pow- er, acquired by penances and austerities, threatened the very existence of the gods. He accomplished, besides, other heroic deeds in his battles with the giants, and became the commander-in-chief of the divine armies. Having been brought up by the Krittiktis, he is called Kartikeya, or Shunmatura, the son of six mothers ; and, from the circumstances adverted to, he bears also the names of Gangeya, the son of the Ganges ; Sarahhu, reared in Sara grass; Shanmukha, the god with the six faces, etc. One of his common appellations is Kumdni, youthful, since he is generally represented as a fine youth; and, as he is riding on a peacock, he receives sometimes the epithet of Sikhiruhana, or "the god whose vehicle is the peacock." — Chambers, Cyclop, s. v.
Kasiniir, St., prince of Poland, noted in the aimals of the lloman Catholic Church for his great piety and asceticism, born in October, 1458, took no unimportant part in the efforts of the royal house of Poland to secure the throne of Hungary. Quite inconsistently with his saintly profession, he marched at the head of a large army towards the borders of Hungary in 1471. On his return, after the declaration of pope Sixtus IV in favor of the deposed king of Hungary', Kasimir practised even greater austerity than before, and died March 4, HS;;, at AViliia, in Lithuania. Kasiniir was canonized in 1522 by pope Leo X, and he is looked upon as the patjrou saint of Poland. See Pol^vi«u.
Kaspi. See Ibx-Caspi.
Katan. See Hakk^vtan.
Katerkamp, Joiiaxn Theodor Hermann, an eminent Koman Catholic theologian, was born at Och- trup, near Minister, Germany, Jan. 17, 17G4; studied theology at IMunster, and subsequently (1809) became professor of Church History in his alma mater. He had been ordained priest in 1787, and in 1823 he was ap- pointed canon, and in 1831 dean of the cathedral at ^linistcr. He died Jidy 8, 1834. Katerkamp's princi- pal work is his Kirchenyesch. (of which the introduction was published in 1819; and live volumes, bringing the work down to the second Crusade, from 1823-34, 8vo). He also wrote Ueher d. chrhtl. Lehen u. d. Geist d. gottes- dienstl. Versainmlunrjen (jMi'inster, 1830, 8vo): — Denk- tnirdigkeiten aus d.Leben d.FUrstin Galiczin (ibid. 1828; 2d ed. 1838). See Herzog, Real-Encyklopddie, vii, 459 ; Wetzer mid Welte, Kircken-Lex. xii, (537.
Katharinus, Ajibrosius. See Catharixus.
Kathenotheism ((caS' tvog &i6c, each one a god) is a term devised by Prof. J\Iax iNIuller {Mg Vtda, i, 164, 460) to designate the doctrine of tlivine unity in diver- sity as unfolded in the sacred writings of tlie Hindus. He rejects the term jjolytheism on the ground that the Hindus, in their worship, ever ascribe to one god the at- tributes of all the others. Thus in one hj-mn, ascribed to Mann, the poet saj's, "Among you, O gods, there is none that is small, none that is young ; you are all great in deed." . . . "And what more coidd human language achieve," asks tlie professor, " in trying to express the idea of a divine aad supreme power? . . . This is surely not what is commonlj- understood by polj'theism. Yet it would be equally wrong to call it monotheism. If we must have a name for it, I should call it KatJienotJteism" (Chips, i, 28). See also Tyler, Primitice Culture (Loud. 1871, 2 vols. 8vo), ii, 321. (J. H.W.)