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 is a river, a tributary of the Godavari River in Indian state of Maharashtra