विश्वक

{ viśvaka }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

VIŚVAKA   A hermit of the period of Ṛgveda. Once Viṣṇāpū the son of this hermit was lost. The father praised the Aśvinidevas, who showed him his son as one shows a lost cow. [Ṛgveda, Maṇḍala 1, Anuvāka 8, Sūkta 116] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : कुल

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

विश्वक  mfn.  mfn. all-pervading, all-containing, [RāmatUp.]
विश्वक  m.  m. N. of a man (also called कृष्णिय, the अश्विन्s restored to him his lost son विष्णापू), [RV.]
कार्ष्णि   (with the patr.) N. of the author of [RV. viii, 86]; [Anukr.]
of a son of पृथु, [VP.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

विश्वक [viśvaka] a.  a. All-pervading, all-containing.