tortoise, turtle SN.iv.177 (kummo kacchapo); in simile of the blind turtle (kāṇo k.) MN.iii.169 = SN.v.455; Thig.500 (cp J.P.T.S. 1907, 73, 174)
■ f. kacchapinī a female t Mil.67.

• -lakkhaṇa “tortoise-sign,” i.e. fortune-telling on the ground of a tortoise being found in a painting or an ornament; a superstition included in the list of tiracchāna-vijjā DN.i.9≈; DN-a.i.94.
• -loma “tortoise-hair, i.e. an impossibility, absurdity Ja.iii.477, cp. sasavisāṇa ˚maya made of t. hair Ja.iii.478.

Sk. kacchapa, dial. fr. *kaśyapa, orig. Ep of kumma, like magga of paṭipadā