දක්ෂයා, n. clever person; name of a son of Brahma. He was called දක්ෂ because he sprang into being from the right-hand thumb of his father. He had sixty daughters, Next page Back to the Search Page | Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 273 -- twenty-seven of whom being married to the moon became the twenty-seven lunar mansions; one, දුර්ගා, was married to Siva, and thirteen became wives of කාශ්යප.