kaSyapaH a. Having black teeth. — paH 1 A tortoise. 2 A sort of fish. 3 A kind of deer. 4 N. of a Ṛṣi, the husband of Aditi and Diti, and thus the father both of gods and demons, (so called because he drank kaSya ‘liquor;’ cf. kaSyapastasya putro'BUt kaSyapAnAt sa kaSyapaH . Mārk. P. ) [He was the son of Marīci, the son of Brahmā. He bears a very important share in the work of creation. According to Mahābhārata and other accounts, he married Aditi and 12 other daughters of Dakṣa, and begot on Aditi the twelve Ādityas. By his other twelve wives he had a numerous and very diversified progeny: serpents, reptiles, birds, demons, nymphs of the lunar constellation. He was thus the father of gods, demons, men, beasts, birds and reptiles-in fact of all living beings. He is therefore often called Prajāpati]. Comp. — naMdanaH an epithet of Garuḍa.