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kāśi

kāśí is, m. ‘shining’, the sun, [L.]

the clenched hand, fist, handful, [RV. iii, 30, 5]; [vii, 104, 8]; [viii, 78, 10]; [Kauś.]

N. of a prince (the ancestor of the kings of Kāśi, of the family of Bharata, son of Suhotra and grandfather of Dhanvantari, [Hariv. 1734]; the son of Kāśya and grandson of Suhotra, [BhP. ix, 17, 4])

(áyas), m. pl. (áyas) the descendants of this prince, [BhP. ix, 17, 10]

N. of the people of Kāśi, [ŚBr. xiii]; [MBh.] &c.

(is), f. ‘the splendid’, N. of a celebrated city and place of pilgrimage (the modern Benares, usually written Kāśī q.v.), [Uṇ. iv, 119]

fine cotton or silk (from Kāśi), [Divyāv.]

kāśí , kāśika. See col. 2.