- कपालिन्
kapālinmfn. bearing a pot (to receive food, as a beggar) Nār. ;
furnished with orᅠ bearing skulls Yājñ. III, 243 BhP. Kum. ;
(ī, inī) mf. a man orᅠ woman of low caste (son orᅠ daughter of a Brāhman mother andᅠ a fisherman father);
the follower of a particular Ṡaiva sect (carrying skulls of men as ornament andᅠ eating andᅠ drinking from them;
cf. kāpālika) Prab. Kathās. etc.;
(ī) m. N. of Ṡiva MBh. I Bālar. etc.. ;
of one of the eleven Rudras MBh. II Hariv. etc.. ;
of a demon causing diseases Hariv. 9557 ;
of a teacher;
(inī) f. a form of Durgā (as the wife of Ṡiva-kapālin) Hariv. Kathās. ;
of a being attending on Devi
Sanskrit-English dictionary. 2013.