This Vital Soul, then, is the seat of all those instincts which go towards the preservation of the individual's physical body, and towards the propagation of the race; and it is on this account that our theosophical friends call it the "Desire Body" or, to use the Indian term "kama rupa."
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
All the manifestations of kama on earth are images of Pursuit or Return.
"Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna"
Vidyapati Thakura
Thence he was sent to the miserable town of kama, and a few months later to Tomsk, where he learned that they wanted to exile him to Siberia.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky