श्वपाक

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : चांडाल, चांडाल

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

श्व—पाक  m.  m. one who cooks dogs, a man of an outcaste tribe (= -पच above), [Baudh.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

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श्व पाक

Shabda-Sagara

श्वपाक  m.  ( -कः) A man of a degraded and outcaste tribe, the son of an Ugra woman by a Kshettṛ male, and classed with the Chaṇḍāla, with whom he is ordered to live out of the town, to feed from broken vessels, and wear the clothes of the dead; to possess no other property than asses and dogs, and to be excluded from all intercourse with other tribes; he can only be employed as public executioner, or to carry out the bodies of those who die without kindred.
E. श्व a dog, पच् to cook, (to feed on or to cherish,) aff. घञ्H see श्वपच .

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श्व पच् घञ्H श्वपच .