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]