kala

anta kala raghubara pura jai, jahan janma hari-bhakta kahai — At the last one goes to Rama's own city, and wherever reborn, is called a devotee of Hari.

There is desha-kala , place and time, the recognition that what is right shifts with where and when one stands.

It argues that Aditya is called aditya because he belongs to the beginning, and that even Prajapati and Kala were made after him.

…ere by devotion: Sri , the spider, who wove a canopy over the lingam, Kala , the serpent, who adorned it with jewels, and Hasti , the elephant, who bathed it.

…avatara ; the tradition also speaks of partial descents, an amsa or a kala , in which only a portion of the divine power enters a being.

The Kularnava Tantra (14.39) lists seven kinds of liberating initiation: by rite ( kriya ), by letter ( varna ), by kala , by touch ( sparsha ), by speech ( vak ), by sight ( drik ), and by mind ( manasa ).

From Shiva's anger a being is born, blazing, and Shiva names him Kāla Bhairava , the Bhairava who is Time, before whom even Death is afraid.

Kali is the feminine of kala , a word that means both blackness and time.