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Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKaccapa (ಕಚ್ಚಪ):—[noun] any slow-moving, plant-eating land reptile of the family Testudinidae, encased in a scaly or hard shell, in to which it can retract its head and thick legs; a tortoise.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with: Kaccapada, Kaccapakka, Kaccapalayam, Kaccapam, Kaccapavine.
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Sushruta Samhita, volume 2: Nidanasthana (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Legend of Paraśurāma < [Book IV]