ཀ Ka the first letter of the Tibetan alphabet, corresponding in sound to the Sanskrit क or the English K. Of this letter we read: ཀ་ནི་རྩ་བ་ཞེས་པར་གྲགས ka-ni ṟtsa-wa shes̱-par grags̱ (K. g. ཀ 424) "the ka is called the root." As the first letter it has the sense of "the beginning": ཀ་ནས་དག་པ ka-nas̱ dag-pa pure from the beginning. Again, it can signify "power": I^I^t-Jra'*)-*^ snan htsher-nifi ma-shu ka-med though unpleasant to hear, I have no power not to say it ; wqflffri^ ma ka-med powerless not to give ; w*3j' ma hgro ka-med. powerless not to go, i.e., cannot avoid going. ") ka has almost the same sense in "V$ - gfS)-i^S-q-9t &a c it kyaft mi-phan hchi-wa la (Lo. 35), no re- source avails at death. This letter seems to have other metaphorical meanings ; thus we read: "V^'a-q-nW"' 5 ^ ka sfiet bya-wa Mod-pa yin (K. g. f> 179) "ka, so to be called, is desire."

ཀ I: 1. when used in indicating numbers ka signifies one or first. 2. in modern Tibetan as an affix to many words it denotes: the, all the, the very, fkab$-ka has the same meaning as u, on a certain occasion ; " de-ka that very ; "ft"'*) g.nis-ka the two. 3. in a large number of words we find *| occurring as the second syllable. In some of these it has been added apparently as a differenti- ative particle ; and in the colloq. we often find it annexed to the older monosyllabic form without explainable reason.

ཀ II: indeed; surely: H^ t ^'^ i n i *f star yafi dran-du ka sod (Pag. 42) later again he indeed recollected (the separa- tion).

ཀ ka for ; "t ka-tca a pillar.

ཀ་ཁ ka-kha 1. the A-B-C, or alphabet. 2. a feather: "I^VTTr^lf* bsaft-fkad la ka-kha ni sgro-ho (K. g. "1 216) in the secret language ka-kha signifies a feather.

ཀ་ཁ་པ ka-kha-pa a beginner of the alphabet; a child.

if ka-tho, also *[f&.'f ka-khahi tho, an alphabetical register; an index.

T^"! Ka-thog lit. "on the top of *| "; n. of a celebrated Buddhist monastery in Kham belonging to the Rnifi-ma School, the Head Lama of which is believed always to be an incarnation of his predecessor and holds the title of njlf'ir^ir'*^* I The hill on 2