1. Alātasvāmin (No. 43, L. 7): The first part ‘Alāta’ means fire.49 We have in the Mahābhārata a name ‘Alātākṣī’ ‘having fiery eyes’, one of the mothers in Skanda's retinue.50 The second part svāmin means ‘a master, lord or owner’. It is also used for a spiritual preceptor, learned brāhmaṇa or paṇḍita (used as a title at the end of names, especially of the natives of the Karnataka).51 Literally the whole means ‘the lord of fire’.