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Tocharian B
Etymology
Clipping of Sanskrit महाकाश्यप (mahākāśyapa), itself a borrowing from Pali Mahākassapa.
Proper noun
Kāśyape
- (Buddhism) Maha Kassapa, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “Kāśyape”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 165