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kapila

kapilá mf(A)n. (√ kam, [Uṇ. i, 56]; more probably connected with kapi, [BRD.]), ‘monkey-coloured’, brown, tawny, reddish, [RV. x, 27, 16]; [ŚBr.]; [R.] &c.


red-haired, [Mn. iii, 8]


kapilá (as), m. the brown or tawny or reddish colour, [Suśr.]


a kind of mouse


a kind of ape, [Kathās.]


a (brown) dog, [L.]


incense, [L.]


N. of an ancient sage (identified by some with Viṣṇu and considered as the founder of the Sāṃkhya system of philosophy), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c.


N. of several other men


of a Dānava, [Hariv. 197]; [BhP.]


of a Nāga, [MBh. iii, 8010]; [Hariv.] &c.


of a Varṣa in Kuśa-dvīpa, [VP. ii, 4, 37]


of several mountains


a form of fire, [MBh. iii, 14197]


N. of the sun, [MBh. iii, 154]


kapilá (ās), m. pl. N. of a people, [VarBṛS.]


of the Brāhmans in Śālmala-dvīpa, [VP. ii, 4, 31]