Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. (kā or sikā f.) [vās- vas-ṇic vā ṇvul] 1 Scenting, perfum- ing, infusing, fumigating &c.
2 Causing to dwell, populating. kaṃ Clothes. Comp. sajjā, sajjikā a woman who dresses herself in all her ornaments and keeps herself (and her house) ready to receive her lover, especially when he has made an appointment with her; an expectant heroine, one of the several classes of a Nāyikā; S. D. thus defines her:...
