coming from Kāsi (of cloth: of fine cotton or muslin; of sandal: of fine quality);

…Sk. kāśika & in a diff. sense aḍḍha-kāsika

KāsiKāsikaKāsigāmaKāsinigama

One of the sixteen Great Nations, AN.i.213 its capital being Bārāṇasī.

At the time of the Buddha, it had…

(an ascetic or bhikkhu) living in the open, in the open air.

not from Kāsi; inferior

fine sandal from Kāsi

fine garment of muslin from from Kāsi

pad of cloth (for rubbing the body).

Abbhokāsik’anga: ‘living in the open air’, is one of the ascetic means to purification dhutānga.

adjective belonging to the open air, one who lives in the open, the practice of certain ascetics. DN.i.167; MN.i.282; AN.iii.220; Vin.v.131, Vin.v.193; Ja.iv.8 (+ nesajjika); Pp.69; Mil.20, Mil.342. …

…rāja-purisā* C.).

a + kāsika?

…kahāpaṇa AN.v.83.

• -kāsika (or ˚ya) worth half a thousand kāsiyas (i.e. of Benares monetary standard) Vin.i.281…

…& sandal); Pv-a.76
■ Kāsika˚ sandal from Kāsī AN.iii.391; AN.iv.281; Mil.243, Mil.348; ratta˚ red s. Ja.iv.442 lohita˚ id. AN.v.22;…

…woollen garments (aḍḍhakāsika) were not allowed for Bhikkhus: Vin.i.281; Vin.ii.174 see further Ja.i.43, Ja.i.178, Ja.i.322; Ja.iv.138;…

the red lotus in -jāta “like the red lotus,” said of the flower of the Pāricchattaka tree AN.iv.118.

adjective evident, manifest, open, clear Ja.vi.230 (opp. guyha; C. pākāsika).

fr. pa + ā + kāś, cp. pakāsati & Class. Sk. prākāśya

…akatvā r., abbhokāsika) <(b) belonging to the practice of a recluse living under a tree “tree rootman’s practice” (*Vism…

at Vin.ii.106 is not clear. Vin Texts iii.68 leave it untranslated. Bdhgh’s expl^n. is vattavaṭṭi (patta˚? a leaf? Cp. SN.iii.141), prob. = vaṭṭi (Sk varti a kind of pad). See details given …

…(odātaṃ), AN.iii.50 (kāsikaṃ), AN.iii.386 (kāsāyaṃ); AN.iv.60, AN.iv.186, AN.iv.210; AN.v.61 sq. (ubhatobhāga-vimaṭṭhaṃ =…

…be a derⁿ fr. kāsika, i.e. Benares cloth, the vi˚ denoting as much as “a kind of.”

fr. vi + kṛṣ: see…