kāpā कापा kā́pā f. a carriage ([Gmn.]), [RV. x, 40, 3.] kāpālī कापाली f. the Embelia Ribes, [L.] a clever woman, [L.] kāpāla कापाल mf(I)n. (fr. kapāla), relating to the skull or cranium, [R. i, 29, 13]; [VarBṛS.] (= [Pañcat.]) made of skulls, [Prasannar. lxxviii, 15] m. a follower of a particular Śaiva sect of ascetics (see kāpālika) the plant Cucumis utilissimus, [L.] m. pl. the school of Kapālin n. a kind of leprosy, [Car. vi, 7.] kāpāli कापालि m. N. of a Siddha, [Sarvad.] kāpālin कापालिन् m. ‘adorned with skulls’, N. of Śiva, [MBh. xiii, 1217] (cf. kapālin) N. of a mixed caste, [BrahmaP.] N. of a son of Kṛṣṇa and Yaudhiṣṭhirī, [Hariv. 9196.] kāpālika कापालिक mf(I)n. relating to or belonging to a skull (= kapālikeva) g. śarkarādi, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 107] m. a kind of Śaiva ascetic who carries a human skull and uses it as a receptacle for his food (he belongs to the left-hand sect), [VarBṛS.]; [Bhartṛ. i, 64]; [Prab. liii, 5]; [Kathās.] &c. N. of a mixed class (kapālin), [L.] N. of a teacher n. a kind of leprosy mfn. peculiar to a Kāpālika, [Prab.]; [Pañcat.] kāpāṭika कापाटिक mfn. = kapāṭikeva. g. śarkarādi (kāpālika, [Kāś.]) also v.l. for kārpaṭika, [L.] kāpālikatva कापालिकत्व kāpālika-tva n. barbarousness, cruelty, [Mālatīm.]