kaśyápa mfn. (fr. kaśya + 2. pa) having black teeth Comm. on [KātyŚr. x, 2, 35]
kaśyápa m. a tortoise (kacchapa), [VS. xxiv, 37]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.]
a sort of fish, [W.]
a kind of deer (cf. kāśyapa), [L.]
a class of divine beings associated with Prajāpati, [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]
kaśyápa m. pl. a class of semidivine genii connected with or regulating the course of the sun, [AV. xiii, 1, 23]; [TĀr. i, 8]; [PārGṛ. ii, 9, 13]
kaśyápa m. N. of a mythical Ṛṣi, [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.]
of an ancient sage, [VS.]; [AV.] &c., (a descendant of Marīci and author of several hymns of the Ṛg-veda, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; he was husband of Aditi and twelve other daughters of Dakṣa, [MBh. i, 2598]; [Mn. ix, 129]; by Aditi he was father of the Ādityas [cf. kāśyapeya] [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; and of Vivasvat, [R.]; and of Viṣṇu in his vāmana avatāra, [R.]; [BhP.]; [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 Ṛṣis 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, &c.)
a patronymic from Kaśyapa, [ŚBr.]
the author of a Dharmaśāstra called Kaśyahollara-saṃhitā; the constellation Cancer (cf. Pers. kashaf), [VP.]
kaśyápa m. pl. the descendants of Kaśyapa, [AitBr.]; [ĀśvŚr.]