dAsI 1 A female servant or slave. 2 The wife of a fisherman. 3 The wife of a Śūdra. 4 An altar. 5 A harlot. Comp. — putraH , — sutaH the son of a female slave. — SrotriyaH a Brāhmaṇa (knowing the Vedas) attached to a female slave. — saBaM a collection of female slaves. (The gen. sing. dAsyAH enters into some compounds, but loses its literal sense; e. g. dAsyAHputraH , — sutaH ‘a whore-son’, used as a term of abuse; dAsyAHputrEH SakunilubDakEH Ś. 2 ; but dAsyAH sadfSI ‘like ( pb ) a female slave’).