Ardent or intense desire, eagerness; (this word, like the word laṭabha q. v., is used only by later writers like Kalhaṇa, Bil- haṇa, and is probably derived from Persian or Arabic); asminnāsīttadanu niviḍāśleṣahevākalīlāvelladvāhukvaṇitavalayā saṃtataṃ rājalakṣmīḥ Vikr. 18. 101; cf. hevākin below.