ṣvapaca | ष्वपच | Svapaca

ṣva—paca | ष्व—पच | mf(A or I). ‘one who cooks d˚’, a man or woman of a low and outcaste tribe (the son of a Caṇḍāla and a Brāhmaṇī, or of a Niṣṭya and a previously unmarried Kirātī, or of an Ugra woman by a Kṣatriya, or of a Kṣ˚ woman by an Ugra, or of a Brāhmaṇī by an Ambaṣṭha, often = caṛqāla | चऋक़ाल |; he acts as a public executioner and carries out the bodies of those who die without kindred), ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
a dog-feeder, dog-keeper, W.

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