kāśika (4813)

kāśika
Entry 4813, Page 181, Col. 2

(kASika, kASika)
kāśika¦, adj., and subst. m. or nt. (see s.v. kāśi; as adj. Skt. Gr.; in Pali recorded only as adj., chiefly with vattha, also uttama), adj. of Benares: once kāśika-canda- naṃ Mv i.286.5; otherwise only of a kind of cloth, or gar- ments made of it, kāśikair vastraiḥ Divy 391.26; °ka- vastra- Divy 29.4--5 ff.; Av i.107.1; 109.12; Kv 39.5; 72.5; 78.23; 86.17; Mv iii.119.8; °ka-śuci-vastra- Mv iii.412. 12; °ka-pratyāstaraṇaṃ Mv i.306.9; °kāṃśu- (see aṃśu) Divy 316.27; °kottama-dhāriṇaḥ (mss. °vāriṇaḥ; see s.v. uttama 2) Mv i.296.4; as subst., a garment of this cloth, nt., lubdhakasya kāśikāni dattvā Mv ii.189.11; or m., kāśikau (dual) gṛhṇitvā (gṛhītvā) Mv ii.195.8 and 9; hitvā… kauṭumba-kāśikān (dvandva) Divy 559.10 (foll. by dhārayan pāṃśukūlāni; vs); the cpd. kāśika-sūkṣma occurs as adj., °māṇi prāvṛtāni Mv ii.159.11, °māṇi vastrāṇi Mv iii.264.6, but also as subst. nt., Mvy 9176 °mam (Tib. fine cloth of Kāśi), and Mv ii.116.7 (vividhāni vastrāṇi…sayyathī- daṃ) kāśikasūkṣmāṇi kambalasūkṣmāṇi; cf. also kāśi- sūkṣma, s.v.; as subst. f. kāśikā, see next. The word is variously interpreted, sometimes (e.g. Divy Index) as silk, but the preponderance of opinion favors a fine cotton or muslin.