pāvaka | पावक | pAvaka

pāvaka/ | पावक/ | mf(ā/ | आ/ |)n. pure, clear, bright, shining, RV.; VS.; AV. (said of Agni, Sūrya and other gods, of water, day and night &c.; according to native Comms. it is mostly = soḍaka | सोडक |, ‘cleansing, purifying’)
pāvaka/ | पावक/ | m. N. of a partic. Agni (in the Purāṇas said to be a son of Agni Abhimānin and Svāhā or of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī), TS.; TBr.; KātyŚr.; Pur.
pāvaka/ | पावक/ | m. (ifc. f(A). ) fire or the god of fire, Up.; MBh.; Kāv. &c.
pāvaka/ | पावक/ | m. N. of the number 3 (like all words for ‘fire’, because fire is of three kinds See agni | अग्नि |), Sūryas.
a kind of Ṛṣi, a saint, a person purified by religious abstraction or one who purified from sin, MBh.
Prenina Spinosa, L.
Plumbago Zeylanica or some other species, L.
Semecarpus Anacardium, L.
Carthamus Tinctoria, L.
Embelia Ribes, L.

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