Kehama
Encyclopedia
Kehama is the name of a fictional Hindu
raja
h who obtains and sports with supernatural powers, whose adventures are given in Robert Southey
's Curse of Kehama
(1810).
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
raja
Raja
Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...
h who obtains and sports with supernatural powers, whose adventures are given in Robert Southey
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843...
's Curse of Kehama
Curse of Kehama
The Curse of Kehama is an 1810 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's school boy days when he would suffer insomnia along with his memories of a dark and mysterious schoolmate that later formed the basis for one of the poem's villains. The poem was...
(1810).