प्रवर

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

PRAVARA   A Yādava. He was one of the ministers of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. [Chapter 71, Viṣṇu Purāṇa] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : गोत्र

A dictionary, Marathi and English

pravara a S Chief, principal, supreme, very exalted or very excellent. 2 m The founder of a race.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

a   Chief.
 m  The founder of a race.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

प्र-वर  mfn.  1. mf( आ)n. ( fr. प्र + वर or fr. प्र √ 2. वृ; for 2. and 3. See p.693) most excellent, chief, principal, best, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

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eldest (son), [MBh.]
better than ( abl.), [BhP.]
सम   greater ( opp. to , ‘equal’, and न्यून, ‘smaller’), [Var.]
( ifc.) eminent, distinguished by, [Hariv.]
प्र-वर  m.  m. a black variety of Phaseolus Mungo, [L.]

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Opuntia Dillenii, [L.]
N. of a messenger of the gods and friend of इन्द्र, [Hariv.]
of a दानव, ib.
प्र-वर  n.  n. aloe wood, [Bhpr.]

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a partic. high number, [Buddh.]
प्र-वर  m.  2. m. (for 1. See p.690) a cover, [ŚBr.] ( [Sāy.] प्र-वार; cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 54])

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an upper garment, [Var. 1.]
प्र-वर  m.  3. m. a call, summons ( esp. of a Brāhman to priestly functions), [AitBr.]

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an invocation of अग्नि at the beginning of a sacrifice, a series of ancestors (so called because अग्नि is invited to bear the oblations to the gods as he did for the sacrificer's progenitors, the names of the 4 10 5 most nearly connected with the ancient ऋषिs being then added), [Br.]; [ŚrS.]
a family, race, [L.]
 f. an ancestor, KātyŚr. Sch. ( f( ई)., [Pat.])

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

प्रवर [pravara]   a.
Chief, principal, most excellent or distinguished, best, exalted; भीष्मः कुरूणां प्रवरः [Mb. 3.85.116;] संकेतके चिरयति प्रवरो विनोदः [MK.3.3;] [Ms. 1.27;] Ghaṭ.16.
Eldest.
-रः   A call, summons.
A particular invocation addressed to Agni by a Brāhmaṇa at the consecration of his fire.
A line of ancestors.
A race, family, lineage.
An ancestor.
A Muni or noble ancestor who contributes to the credit of a particular gotra or family; said to be the friend of Indra; पुरश्चकार प्रवरं वरं यमायन् सखायं ददर्श तया सः [N.14.62;] cf. पञ्च˚, त्रि˚.
Offspring, descendants.
A cover, covering.
An upper garment.
One of the 42 Gotras.
-रा  N. N. of a river falling into the Godāvarī.
रम् Aloe-wood
A particular high number; Buddh. -Comp.
-कल्याण a.  a. eminently beautiful.
-जनः   a person of quality.
-धातुः   precious metal.-ललितम् N. of a metre with each line of sixteen syllables; V. Ratna. See appendix.
-वाहनौ   (du.) an epithet of the two Aśvins.

Shabda-Sagara

प्रवर  mfn.  ( -रः-रा-रं) Best, most excellent.
 m.  ( -रः)
1. A line of ancestors. 2. An ancestor.
3. Lineage.
4. An exalted ancestor who contributes to the credit of a particular Gotra.
5. A particular invocation ad- dressed to Agni by a Brāhmana at the consecration of his fire.
6. A call, a summons.
 n.  ( -रं)
1. Offspring, descendants.
2. Family, race, kindred.
3. A black sort of kidney bean, known as Aloe-wood.
4. Covering, screening.
5. A Muni, who contributes to the continua- tion of and credit of a particular caste or tribe of Brāhmans.
E. प्र before, वृ to chuse, aff. अप् .

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प्र वृ अप् .