kOSika
Kauśika , ( 1 ) (presumably = Skt. id. as gotra-name), n. of a brahmanical gotra: Mv ii.48.16 ff. , and of an ascetic belonging to it, ii.49.3 ff. ; in ii.63.18 he is called Nārada by personal name, which is due to a confusion in the story, the true form of which is told in Pali , Jāt. 535 , where the ascetic is called (Macchari-)Kosiya (Kosika), and Nārada (= Skt. id. ) appears as a quite different character; many vss of the Jāt. are paralleled in Mv , including one giving (in Mv , not in the Jāt. ) the name Nārada, apparently, to the ascetic ( Mv ii.55.3 = Jāt. v.395.12 ); ( 2 ) n. of a disciple of Śākyamuni, to be read in LV 1.16 instead of Kasphila , q.v. , as proved by Tib. ḥug pa = owl ; he may be the same as Pali 3 Kosiya in DPPN ; ( 3 ) n. of a locality: Māy 81 ; see Lévi , p. 101 , [Page196-b] identifying this with Skt. Kuśika; cf. also Kirfel, Kosmographie 90 , Kauśika, n. of a people.