1 A female servant or slave.

2 The wife of a fisherman.

3 The wife of a Śūdra.

4 An altar.

5 A harlot. Comp. putraḥ, sutaḥ the son of a female slave. śrotriyaḥ a Brāhmaṇa (knowing the Vedas) attached to a female slave. sabhaṃ a collection of female slaves. (The gen. sing. dāsyāḥ enters into some compounds, but loses its literal sense; e. g. dāsyāḥputraḥ, sutaḥ ‘a whore-son’, used as a term of...