Dictionary entry

Kama (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Ka″ma (kä″mä), n.(Theosophy) Desire; animal passion; — supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (ro͞opȧ) [Skr. rūpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (lō″kȧ) [Skr. lōka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.