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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कपालिन्kapālina.Furnished with or having a skull; Y.3.243.
    1. Furnished with or having a skull; Y.3.243.
    2. Wearing skulls. कपालि वा स्यादथवेन्दुशेखरम् (वपुः) Ku.5.78. -Masculine
    3. An epithet of Śiva; करं कर्णे कुर्वन्त्यपि किल कपालिप्रभृतयः G. Latin28.
    4. A man of low caste (offspring of a Brāhmaṇa mother to fisherman father.).

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -नी Name of Durgā.

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Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. कपालिन्kapālin[kapâl-in] a. bearing a bowl or skulls; m. N. of Siva or of one of the eleven Rudras; kind of sectary.

    [kapâl-in] adjective bearing a bowl or skulls; masculine noun of Siva or of one of the eleven Rudras; kind of sectary.

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Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कपालिन्kapālinmfn. bearing a pot (to receive food, as a beggar) Na1r.
    1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective bearing a pot (to receive food, as a beggar) Na1r.
    2. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective furnished with or bearing skulls Ya1jn5. iii, 243 BhP. Kum.
    3. mf. (ई, इनी) a man or woman of low caste (son or daughter of a Bra1hman Brahman mother and a fisherman father)
    4. mf. the follower of a particular S3aiva शैव sect (carrying skulls of men as ornament and eating and drinking from them; confer, compare कापालिक) Prab. Katha1s. etc.
    5. masculine gender Name of S3iva शिव MBh. i Ba1lar. etc.
    6. masculine gender of one of the eleven Rudras रुद्र s MBh. ii Hariv. etc.
    7. masculine gender of a demon causing diseases Hariv. 9557
    8. masculine gender of a teacher
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  2. दण्डकपालिन्daṇḍakapālinmfn. carrying a staff and a skull Hcat. ii, 1, 704.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective carrying a staff and a skull Hcat. ii, 1, 704.

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  3. पाशकपालिन्pāśakapālinmfn. having a noose and a skull HParis3.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective having a noose and a skull HParis3.

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  4. शिरःकपालिन्śiraḥkapālinmfn. carrying a skull Ya1jn5.
    1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective carrying a skull Ya1jn5.
    2. masculine gender a religious mendicant who carries about a human skull (as a symbol of having abandoned the world) W.
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