Kapi, Kāpi, Kāpī: 28 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Kapi (कपि):—m. [Die Uṇādi-Affixe 4, 145.]

1) Affe [Amarakoṣa 2, 5, 3.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1291.] [Medinīkoṣa Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2.] [Ṛgveda 10, 86, 5.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3, 9, 4. 4, 37, 11. 6, 49, 1.] [Yāska’s Nirukta 3, 18.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 154.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 65.] [Suśruta 1, 111, 2.] [Ṛtusaṃhāra 1, 23.] tasya yathā kapyāsaṃ puṇḍarīkamevamakṣiṇī [Chāndogyopaniṣad 1, 6, 7.] f. kapi und kapī gaṇa bahvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 45.] kapitva der Zustand eines Affen [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 2, 15.] —

2) Elephant [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 175.] —

3) Name einer Pflanze: Emblica officinalis Gaert. (dhātrikā) nach [Śabdamālā im Śabdakalpadruma] eine Species von karañja nach [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma] —

4) Weihrauch [Medinīkoṣa] Vgl. kapija, kapitaila, kapināman, kapila, kapiśa, kapyākhya . —

5) Sonne [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 7.] Vgl. kavi . —

6) ein Beiname Viṣṇu’s oder Kṛṣṇa’s [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 74.] [Medinīkoṣa] Neben kapila [Mahābhārata 13, 7045.] Vgl. kapīndra . —

7) Nomen proprium des angeblichen Verfassers von [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 2, 16.] Ahn Kāpya’s [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad 3, 3, 1.] ein Sohn Urukṣaya’s [Viṣṇupurāṇa 451] [?(Variante l.] kavi). kapayaḥ [Pravarādhyāya] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 62, 13.] kapiśyāparṇeyāḥ gaṇa kārtakaujapādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 37.] — Viell. von kamp [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 217. 343.]

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Kāpī (कापी):—f.

1) Nomen proprium eines Frauenzimmers, f. zu kāpya (vgl. kāppa d. i. kāpya v.l. für kāvya im gaṇa śārṅgaravādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 73]); kāpīputra Name eines Lehrers [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad 6, 5, 1.] —

2) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Viṣṇupurāṇa 183.]

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Kapi (कपि):—adj. braun (varṇanāman) [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 4, 143.] —

7) mit dem patron. Khārgali als Beiname des Luśas [Kāṭhaka-Recension 30, 2.] muni [Oxforder Handschriften 140,a, No. 280.] — Vgl. mahā, kāpeya, kāpya .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Kapi (कपि):—m.

1) Affe. Das. *f. kapi und kapī. —

2) *Elephant.

3) *Emblica officinalis , *eine Karañja-Species und *Olibanum ([Rājan 12,105]) —

4) *die Sonne.

5) Beiname Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa's. —

6) Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer. Pl. ihr Geschlecht.

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Kāpī (कापी):—f.

1) Patron. f. zu kāpya , patra m. Nomen proprium eines Lehrers. —

2) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Mahābhārata 6,9,24.]

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