Pravara Explained

Pravara is Sanskrit for "excellent" or "best". It may also refer to:

• Sanskrit term for the call to a Brahmin to assume priestly functions; see Upanayanam
• an invocation of Agni at the beginning of sacrifice
• Pravaras, an invocation of ancestors
• Pravara River, a river, a tributary of Godavari River in the Indian state of Maharashtra
• Pravara Rural Engineering College, Maharashtra, India