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 . ROOTS:
श्व पच् घञ्H श्वपच .