कश्यप [ kaśyapa ] [ kaśyápa ] m. f. n. ( fr. [ kaśya ] + 2. [ pa ] ) having black teeth Comm. on Lit. KātyŚr. x , 2 , 35

[ kaśyapa ] m. a tortoise ( [ kacchapa ] ) Lit. VS. xxiv , 37 Lit. AitBr. Lit. ŚBr.

a sort of fish Lit. W.

a kind of deer ( cf. [ kāśyapa ] ) Lit. L.

a class of divine beings associated with Prajāpati Lit. AV. Lit. TS. Lit. VS.

m. pl. a class of semidivine genii connected with or regulating the course of the sun Lit. AV. xiii , 1 , 23 Lit. TĀr. i , 8 Lit. PārGṛ. ii , 9 , 13

m. N. of a mythical Ṛishi Lit. AitBr. Lit. ŚBr.

of an ancient sage Lit. VS. Lit. AV. , (a descendant of Marīci and author of several hymns of the Ṛig-veda Lit. RV. Lit. AV. Lit. ŚBr. ; he was husband of Aditi and twelve other daughters of Daksha Lit. MBh. i , 2598 Lit. Mn. ix , 129 ; by Aditi he was father of the Ādityas ( cf. [ kāśyapeya ] ) Lit. TS. Lit. ŚBr. ; and of Vivasvat Lit. R. ; and of Vishṇu in his [ vāmana avatāra ] Lit. R. Lit. BhP. Lit. VP. ; by his other twelve wives he was father of demons , nāgas , reptiles , birds , and all kinds of living things ; from the prominent part ascribed to him in creation he is sometimes called Prajā-pati ; he is one of the seven great Ṛishis and priest of Paraśu-rāma and Rāma-candra ; he is supposed by some to be a personification of races inhabiting the Caucasus , the Caspian , Kaśmīr , )

a patronymic from Kaśyapa Lit. ŚBr.

the author of a Dharmaśāstra called Kaśyahôllara-saṃhitā ; the constellation Cancer (cf. Pers. (kashaf) ) Lit. VP.

m. pl. the descendants of Kaśyapa Lit. AitBr. Lit. ĀśvŚr.

[ kaśyapā ] f. a female Ṛishi (authoress of a verse in the White Yajur-veda) .