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श्व—पाक m. m. one who cooks dogs, a man of an outcaste tribe (=
-पच above), [Baudh.] ; [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c.
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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.
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E.
श्व a dog, पच् to cook, (to feed on or to cherish,) aff. घञ्H see श्वपच .
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See : चांडाल, चांडाल
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