Kassapa
, m. [cf. kacchapa, q.v.; sa. Kāśyapa, cf.BHSD s.v.], name of a brahmin gotra, cf. J. BROUGH,
Early System of Gotra and Pravara (Gotrapravara-
mañjarī), 1953: 158 foll.; ~ is used to address different
persons, cf. Vin I 92,37-93,2; D II 154,9-15, and O. v.
HINÜBER, Untersuchungen zur Mündlichkeit, AWL
1994, Nr. 5: 10 foll. on this particular way of address; cf.
s.v. Kassapagotta, q.v.; — exeg.: kassaṁ vuccati khet-
taṁ, kassaṁ pāti rakkhatī ti ~o, Niruttidīpanī Be
1970 784, cf. C. A. Scherrer-Schaub, Tibetan Studies.
Proc. of the 5th Seminar of the Intern. Assoc, for Tibetan
Studies, Narita 1989, 1992: 214 foll.; — kacchapa ~ā
honti, Ja II 360,23* (play of words; cf. BROUGH as above,
p. XI foll); katarassa ~assa, Ps II 120,34 (thus Be; Ee
katara-°); attano gottavasena tayo pi janā ~ā eva nā-
ma jātā, Mp I 298,11; — ifc. Acela-°; Uruvelā-°; kata-
ra-°; Kumāra-° ; Gayā-°; Culla-nārada-° (~jātaka);
Nadī-° ; Nārada-°, Pūraṇa-°; Mahā-°; Mahā-nāra-
da-° (~jātaka); Lomasa-°.
