kASyapa
Kāśyapa (= Pali Kassapa; Tib. ḥod sruṅs , light-guard , e.g. on Mvy 93 ), ( 1 ) n. of a former Buddha, the one immediately preceding Śākyamuni: often mentioned as having predicted the latter, and esp. as one of a group of three, the others being Krakucchanda and Kanakamuni , or equivalents; see the former for list of such references; also alone (it being not always certain that this particular Buddha is meant, cf. Mv i.58.8 , ref. to 90,000 Buddhas of this name), Mv i.307.4 ff. ; 312.2 ; 318.7 ff. ; [Page182-a] iii.249.8 ; Divy 22.4 ff. ; 54.12, 25 ; 76.26 ff. ; 192.25 ff. ; 233.21 ff. ; 336.21 ; 337.17 ; 344.4 ff. ; 347.1 ff. ; 465.25 ff. ; 504.26 ; Av i.237.11 ; 247.15 , et alibi ; Karmav 159.7 ; LV 172.9 ; 260.10 ; Mmk 104.17 ff. ; ( 2 ) n. of one of Buddhaʼs leading disciples, also called Mahā-k° (= Pali Kassapa or Mahā-k°), q.v. ; there is no doubt that the same person is, as a rule at least, meant by the two forms, notably Kā° in Mvy 1031 ; Mv iii.48.2 ; SP 116.4 ; 121.3 ff. ; 144.2 ff. ; 206.8 ff. ; Divy 83.10 ff. ; 396.1 ; K. is given the title dhutaguṇāgrapāraga Mv i.64.14 (ff.) , where he is involved as an interlocutor at the First Council, perhaps its presiding officer (as in Pali , DPPN ); he then and there causes Kātyāyana to discourse on the 10 bhūmi; similarly Divy 61.28 calls him dhūtaguṇa-vādinām agro, and cf. Pali AN i.23.19 where Mahākassapa is dhutavādānaṃ ( v.l. dhūtaṅgadharānaṃ) agga; mentioned in Candropama Sūtra, Hoernle MR 40 ff. , = Pali SN ii.197 ff. where (Mahā) Kassapa corresponds; among mahāśrāvakas, Divy 182.22 ; 268.6 ; in Divy 573.8 it appears, strangely, that āryakāśyapasya is an epithet of (the next word) Kātyāyanasya (pañcaśataparivārasya; in the story which follows only Mahākātyāyana appears!); it is not clear whether the same person is meant by āyuṣmān daśabalaḥ Kāśyapaḥ Divy 275.5 , and 7 daśabala-Kāś°;* no monk of this title is recorded in Pali ; in Vv. comm. 148.24 Kassapassa dasabalassa kāle refers to the Buddha Kāś°, tho I find no evidence to support PTSD and DPPN in stating that dasabala was ‘especially’ an epithet of his, ‘to distinguish him from other Kassapas’ as DPPN says; dasabala ( BHS daśa°) of course usually refers to a Buddha, and in Pali generally to the B. Gotama; there are at least four other disciples of his having this name, see Uruvilvā-k°, Kumāra-k°, Gayā-k°, Nadī-k° ; ( 3 ) n. of an ascetic (ṛṣi) who once lived in the Himālaya: Mv ii.106.16 , a previous birth of Mahākāśyapa , q.v. , 114.12 ; ( 4 ) n. of another (?) ascetic (ṛṣi) who lived in the hermitage sāhaṃjanī ( q.v. ; this is not mentioned in connection with the prec. Kā°, and the stories told of them are different): Mv iii.143.13 ff. (in story of Ekaśṛṅga and Nalinī; = Pali Kassapa 9 in DPPN ); prob. the same (at least also living in Sāhaṃjanī) Mv iii.362.14 ; 363.19 . See also Pūraṇa Kāśyapa; Jaṅghā-k° ; Vṛddha-k° . —*Correction in proof: MPS 49.16 names four mahāsthavirāḥ in the world (pṛthivyāṃ) at the time of Buddhaʼs death; two of them were Daśabala-Kāśyapa (one word) and Mahā-Kāśyapa. This settles the above question; D.K. is a separate person.