चरकः _carakḥ

चरकः 1 A spy.

-2 A wandering mendicant, a vagrant.

-3 N. of a sage and physician supposed to be serpent-king Śeṣa come to the earth. [He composed a new book on medicine, based on other works of Agniveśa and other pupils of Ātreya].

-4 N. of a lexicographer m. (pl.); cf. P.IV.3.17.

-5 N. of a branch of the black Yajurveda.