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K
lik
-pur
a
.

A Hindu ritual and mythological work in Skt., belonging to the genre of the upa-
pur
as
. It is a fairly amorphous compilation of material connected with the worship of the Hindu Goddess (see
K
L
). In its present form (which may well be as late as the 13th or 14th cent., put together in Assam or a neighbouring part of Bengal), the text has as its central figure the Goddess
K
m
khy
. Her temple in Assam is one of the p
has, and is said to derive from
Sat
's
yoni
.