pUraRakASyapa
Pūraṇa Kāśyapa , or (in Mv always) Kāśyapa Pūraṇa (= Pali Pūraṇa, v.l. Purāṇa, Kassapa), n. of a celebrated heretical teacher of Buddhaʼs time one (usually the first in listing) of a group of six (śāstāraḥ, tīrthyāḥ): in Divy 154.4 nirgranthāḥ; P. himself called a nirgrantha, Divy 165.14 ; the others are Maskarin Gośālīputra, Saṃjayin Vairaṭīputra, Ajita Keśakambala, Kakuda Kātyāyana, and Nirgrantha Jñātiputra (with variants), qq.v. ; P.K. named with the rest, Mvy 3545 ; Divy 143.10 ; Av i.231.3 ; in the order K.P. , MV 1.253 . o and (as cpd. , Kāśyapa-pūr°) 9; 256.20 ; iii.383.15 ; P.K. without the others, Av i.281.1 ; K.P. without the others, Mv ii.200.10 ; 207.2 ; Pūraṇa alone (without Kāśyapa, and without the names of the others, but often as one of the ‘six teachers’ or the like) Divy 143.9, 13 ; 154.4 ff. ; 164.17, 26 ; 165.14 ff. ; Av i.16.3 ; 47.7 ; 48.6 ; ii.24.11 ; 134.10 .