cārvāka | चार्वाक | cArvAka

cārvāka | चार्वाक | m. (for ˚ru-v˚ | ˚रु-व्˚ | = cārvāc | चार्वाच् | s.v. cā/ru | चा/रु |) N. of a Rākṣasa (friend of Duryodhana, who took the shape of a mendicant Brāhman, when Yudhiṣṭhira entered Hāstina-pura in triumph, and reviled him, but was soon detected and killed by the real Brāhmans), MBh. i, 349; ix, 3619; xii, 1414
N. of a materialistic philosopher (whose doctrines are embodied in the Bārhaspatya-sūtras), Vedāntas.; Śīl.; Rājat. iv, 345; Prab.; Madhus.
a follower of Cārvāka, Sarvad.
cārvāka | चार्वाक | mfn. composed by Cārvāka, Prab. ii, 18/19, Sch.

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