Pāvaka
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Fire · bearer of oblations · the fire · the fire-god
spoken of as
1 expressionAgni“Pāvaka”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"If that wise one has any compassion for me, if there remains any residue of my fortune — be cool for Hanūmān.
in the texts
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
Fire deity said to have given women an all-purifying nature.
Soma gave them purity, Gandharva gave them sweet speech, and Pāvaka (Fire) gave them all-purifying nature;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The fire-god, propitiated by Sītā, who spares Hanūmān's flesh while burning his tail, and who is later loosed by Hanūmān upon Laṅkā's mansions.
"If that wise one has any compassion for me, if there remains any residue of my fortune — be cool for Hanūmān.
Hearing those cruel words, like a seizure of her own self, Vaidehī, burning with grief, approached the fire-god.
"If the noble, long-armed Sugrīva, true to his pledge, will rescue me from this suffering — be cool for Hanūmān.