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Definition[1]

kaṭasī : [f.] cemetery.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

Kaṭasī (f.) [prob. a contamination of kaṭa + sīva(thikā), charnel -- house, under influence of foll. va(ḍḍh˚), cp. Sk. kaṭa (?) a corpse] a cemetery; only in phrase kaṭasiŋ vaḍḍheti "to increase the cemetery" referring to dying and being buried repeatedly in the course of numerous rebirths, expld by susāna & āḷāhana ThA 291. -- vaḍḍhenti kaṭasiŋ ghoraŋ ādiyanti punabbhavaŋ Vin ii.296=A ii.54=Th 1, 456 (where ācinanti (?) for ādiy˚), 575; Th 2, 502. Also in cpds. ˚vaḍḍhana J i.146; Ud 72=Nett 174; ˚vaḍḍhita S ii.178 sq.= Nd2 664.

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
Definition[3]

kaṭasī f. a cemetery L

Source
Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William
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