kASi
kāśi (see also kāśi-sūkṣma ), in mg. 1 also kāśī ( f. ? in mg. 1 = kāśika or °kā 1; in mg. 2 = Pali kāsi, Buddhaghosa on Vin. i.281.18, 20 , cited SBE 17.195 n. 3 , where transl. departs from comm. ; this interpretation is confirmed by our word, which can have no other mg. than some large [Page181-b] number), ( 1 ) some valuable textile product of Benares, fine cotton cloth (?): Divy 388.17 ( vs ) tūlopamāḥ kāśisamopamāś ca; Śikṣ 208.3 (prose) kāśi-kauśeya-dūkūla-; kāśī-, Divy 579.8 kāśī-maha, festival of kāśī-cloth ; ( 2 ) a thousand (pieces of money): Mv iii.375.18 (gaṇikā) sarvāṃ kāśibhūmiṃ kṣamati, was worth (as a fee) the whole sum of a thousand ; 376.1 uparddha- ( mss. , for upārdha- , q.v. ) kāśiṃ kṣamati, was worth half a thousand . Cf. Kāśikā, Uparddha-kāśikā , as proper names (the women were so called because of these rates). The same mg. is given to Pali kāsi by comm. on Vin. , above, and in Vin. i.281.24 occurs upaḍḍha-kāsinaṃ khamamāno, confirming this mg. ; see s.v. kṣamati .