pāvaka

Dictionary meanings for pāvaka from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. [pū-ṇvul] Purifying. kaḥ 1 Fire; pāvakasya mahimā sa gaṇyate kakṣa- vajjvalati sāgare'pi yaḥ R. 11. 75, 3. 9; 16. 87.

2 Agni or the god of fire.

3 The fire of lightning.

4 The Citraka tree.

5 The number ‘three’.

6 A person purified by religious abstraction, saint, sage.

7 Good conduct or behaviour.

8 N. of Varuṇa. kī 1 The wife of Agni.

2 Ved. N. of Sarasvatī. Comp. ātmajaḥ 1. an epithet...

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