pā́ka mfn. (either fr. √ pā + ka, ‘drinking, sucking’, or fr. √ 2. pac, ‘ripening, growing’) very young, [GṛS.]
simple, ignorant, inartificial, honest, [AV.]; [TS.]; [ĀśvŚr.]
pā́ka m. the young of an animal (see uluka-, kapata-)
a child, infant, [L.]
N. of a Daitya slain by Indra, [MBh.]; [Pur.]
m. (√ pac; ifc. f(I). ) cooking, baking, roasting, boiling (trans. and intrans.), [ŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
burning (of bricks, earthenware &c.), [ib.]
any cooked or dressed food, [BhP.]
digestion, assimilation of food, [Suśr.]
ripening, ripeness (of fruit or of a boil), [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.]; [Var.]; [Suśr.]
inflammation, suppuration, [Suśr.]
an abscess, ulcer, [ib.]
ripening of the hair i.e. greyness, old age, [L.]
maturity, full development (as of the mind &c.), completion, perfection, excellence, [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c.
development of consequences, result (esp. of an act done in a former life), [Var.]; [Pañc.]; [MārkP.]
any act having consequences, [BhP.]
the domestic fire, [L.]
a cooking utensil, [L.]
general panic or revolution in a country, [W.] (in comp. 2. is not always separable from 1. ).