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kāśyapī

kā́śyapī f. a female descendant of Kaśyapa, [VarBṛS.]

the earth (according to a legend of the Purāṇas, Paraśu-rāma, after the destruction of the Kṣatriya race and the performance of an Aśvamedha sacrifice, presented the sovereignty of the earth to Kaśyapa), [MBh. viii, 3164]; [Hcar.]

(f. of kāśyapa, q.v.)