Pravara
# Pravara

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 Rural Engineering College
* Pravara River, a river, a tributary of Godavari River in the Indian state of Maharashtra
