kaṭa (4332)

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kaṭa
Entry 4332, Page 164, Col. 1
(kawa, kawa)
kaṭa¦, m. (also, in mg. 2, kaṭā?), (1) (in specialized application of Skt. kaṭa, matting, possibly paralleled in Skt. itself), matting-screen or partition (cf. late Skt. kaṭa = bhitti, Schmidt, Nachträge, s.v.): SP 72.6 (niveśanaṃ…) saṃśīrṇa-kuḍya-kaṭa-lepanaṃ, the (ruined) house had its walls, matting-screens (or partitions), and plaster destroyed; 83.1 (vs) viśīrṇa kuḍyaṃ kaṭa lepanaṃ ca (of the same house); Laṅk 169.(10--)11 (list of things which, by inter- vening, frustrate knowledge of an object) kuḍya-kaṭa- vapra-prākāra-(etc.) -vyavahita- (Suzuki wrongly renders kaṭa mountain); (2) (= Skt. kaṭaka), some ornament, prob. bracelet: Divy 317.13 harṣa-kaṭa-keyūrāhārār- dhahārādīn (all ornaments); 540.26 hastāt kaṭān (so text em., mss. kaṭām, implying acc. sg. of a fem. kaṭā) avatārya.

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