bawu | बwउ | bawu

bawu | बwउ | m. (also written vawu | वwउ |) a boy, lad, stripling, youth (esp. a young Brāhman, but also contemptuously applied to adult persons), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
N. of a class of priests, Cat.
a form of Śiva (so called from being represented by boys in the rites of the Śāktas), ib.
Calosanthes Indica, L.

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