pAvaka a. [ pU-Rvul ] Purifying. — kaH 1 Fire; pAvakasya mahimA sa gaRyate kakzavajjvalati sAgare'pi yaH 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. — kI 1 The wife of Agni. 2 Ved. N. of Sarasvatī. Comp. — AtmajaH 1 an epithet of Kārtikeya. 2 N. of a sage called sudarSana .