Kashyapa, Kāśyapa, Kaśyapa, Kashya-pa, Kashyapanamdana: 35 definitions

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Kashyapa has 33 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Kāśyapa and Kaśyapa can be transliterated into English as Kasyapa or Kashyapa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Kaśyapa (कश्यप):—

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Kāśyapa (काश्यप):—(von kaśyapa)

1) adj. f. ī Kaśyapa gehörig, mit ihm in Verbindung stehend u.s.w.: ojas [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 15, 10.] evaṃ varṣasahasrāṇi divyāni satataṃ nṛpa . triṃśataḥ kāśyapī rājanbhūmirāsīdatandritā .. [Mahābhārata 13, 7237.] pṛthivī kāśyapī jajñe sutā tasya (kaśyapasya) mahātmanaḥ [7238.] stotavyā ceha pṛthivī nivāpasyeha dhāriṇī . vaiṣṇavī kāśyapī ceti tathaivehākṣayeti ca .. [4350.] kāśyapīṃ devīm d. i. die Erde [Harivaṃśa 10645.] Daher kāśyapī f. die Erde [Amarakoṣa 2, 1, 2.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 937.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 442.] [Medinīkoṣa Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 19.] sarvakāmasamāyuktāṃ kāśyapīṃ yaḥ prayacchati [Mahābhārata 13, 3164.] —

2) patron. von Kaśyapa gaṇa vidādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 104.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 7, 5, 1, 5.] [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 12, 14.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 188. 2, 315. 3, 459.] [Taittirīyāraṇyaka 2, 18. 10, 1, 8.] [Mahābhārata 1, 2975. 13, 6298.] [Harivaṃśa 417.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 9, 28. 2, 21, 24. 67, 2.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 124. 3, 103.] [Śākuntala 9, 13. 46, 7.] [Colebrooke II, 64. 356.] pl. [Pravarādhyāya] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 62.] [Mahābhārata 3, 970.] Kāśyapa = Kṛtakoṭi [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 7, 19.] = kaṇāda [21.] = kāśyapi = aruṇa [Scholiast] zu [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 2, 33.] Ein alter Grammatiker [Akademische Vorlesungen 139.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 4, 67.] [MĀDHAVA] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 7, 2, 48.] buddh. [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 236.] [Colebrooke II, 317.] [Burnouf 45. 158. 273. 317. 329. 391. 446. 578.] [Rgva tch’er rol pa 7. 168. 270. 272.] [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde II, 78. fgg.] [456.] Dieses patron. ist so gewöhnlich, dass man es auch da gebrauchte, wo man den Geschlechtsnamen nicht kannte: gotrājñāne kāśyapa iti [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 1, 12.] Häufig durch ein vorangehendes Wort im comp. näher bestimmt; s. uruvilvākāśyapa, gayā, daśabala, nadī, mahā, hasti . —

3) m. eine Hirschart [Medinīkoṣa Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 19.] —

4) m. Fisch (mīna) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] —

5) n. Fleisch [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 622.] — Vgl. kaśyapa .

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Kaśyapa (कश्यप):—, Aussprache des Wortes [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 4, 157.] —

2) c) Verfasser eines Dharmaśāstra [Oxforder Handschriften 266,b,3. 277,b,3 v. u. 356,a,12.] saṃhitā [277,b,2 v. u.] smṛti [14,a, Nalopākhyāna] kaśyapasya dhṛṣṇu oder yāmam, kaśyapasya pratodaḥ, barhiṣyam, śobhanam, svayoni Namen von Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,213,a.]

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Kāśyapa (काश्यप):—

1) nipātaḥ kāśyapaḥ syāt [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 8, 60.] —

2) kāśyapī gotrataḥ [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 26, 5.] Kāśyapa als Verfasser eines Jyotiḥśāstra [21, 2. 24, 2.] —

6) n. Name eines Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,213,b.]

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

Kaśyapa (कश्यप):——

1) Adj. schwarzzähnig.

2) m. — a) Schildkröte. — b) *ein best. Fisch. — c) *eine Antilopenart. — d) ein best. Wesen göttlicher Art (neben oder identisch mit Prajāpati) , Pl. Genien , welche mit dem Sonnenlauf in Verbindung stehen. — e) Nomen proprium verschiedener Ṛṣi. Auch als Patron. , insbes. im Pl. kaśyapasya dhṛṣṇu , pratodau , bārhiṣyaṃ madhyamam , śobhanam und svayonī Namen von Sāman [Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa] — f) ein best. Stern [Wilson's Uebersetzung des Viṣṇupurāṇa ,12,34.] —

3) f. ā Nomen proprium eines weiblichen Ṛṣi.

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Kāśyapa (काश्यप):——

1) Adj. (f. ī) Kaśyapa gehörig , mit ihm in Verbindung stehend u.s.w. —

2) m. — a) Patron. von Kaśyapa , das so vielen Personen zukommt , dass man auch demjenigen , dessen Geschlechtsnamen man nicht kennt , damit bezeichnet. Auch Pl. — b) die Sonne [Viṣṇupurāṇa 3,12,41.] — c) *Bez. Viṣṇu’s [Galano's Wörterbuch] — d) *eine Hirschart. — e) *Fisch.

3) f. ī — a) Patron. von Kaśyapa. — b) die Erde [Harṣacarita 66,23.] Land.

4) n. Name verschiedener Sāman [Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa]

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