Kāśyap

Tocharian B

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit काश्यप (kāśyapa).

Proper noun

Kāśyap

1. (Buddhism) Kassapa (the name of the 27th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama)

Further reading

Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “Kāśyap”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 165