An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s7.214

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Kapa, pl. (°āḥ), a class of demons. § 772p (Pavanārjunasamv.): Vāyu said: When the gods with Indra were in the mouth of Ālāda, Cyavana took away from them the earth, and they had been deprived of the heaven by the K. Brahmān told the gods to seek the protection of the brahmans. The brahmans commenced a rite for the destruction of the K. The K. then Dhanin, who told the brahmans to desist, as the K. were equal to M.-ṛ. and very pious in all respects (enumeration). As the brahmans refused, the K. attacked them, bnt the brahmans destroyed them by creating blazing fires. The gods having slain many Dā. in battle did not know that the K. had been slain by the brahmans, but were informed by Nārada; then their energy increased and they obtaioed immortality: XIII, 158, 7329, 7331-4, 7339, 7341-6.