1. The act of coloring, dyeing, or tinting.
2. Color, hue, tint, dye, or red color.
3. Affection, emotion, passion, or feeling.
4. A musical mode or note.
5. The quality of Rajas.
6. Love, sympathy, interest, joy, or pleasure.
7. Vehement longing or desire.
8. Regret or sorrow.
9. Greediness or envy.
10. Anger or wrath.
11. Loveliness, beauty, charm, or attraction.
12. Nasalization.
13. A particular process in the preparation of quicksilver.
14. A king or prince.
15. The sun.
16. The moon.
राग (rāga) [Printed book page 0837-c] राग (rāga) rāga, as, m. (fr. rt.
rañj), the act of
colouring or dyeing, tinting [cf.
mūrdhaja-r°];
colour, hue, tint, dye, red colour, (sometimes at the
end of an adj. comp., e. g.
kṛmi-rāga, as, ā, am, red as cochineal, dyed with cochineal); affection,
emotion, passion, feeling; a musical mode, (six pri-
mary modes or orders of sounds are enumerated,
viz.
Bhairava, Kauśika, Hindola, Dīpaka, Śrī- rāga, and
Megha; or
Śrī-rāga, Vasanta, Pañ- cama, Bhairava, Megha, and
Nata-nārāyaṇa; or
Mālava, Mallāra, Śrī-rāga, Vasanta, Hil- lola, and
Karṇāṭa: these six Rāgas or modes are
supposed to have been originally connected with the
six Ṛtus or seasons, each mode, like the several
seasons, moving some Rāga or affection of the mind;
they are personified, and each of the six is wedded to
five consorts, called Rāgiṇīs, and is the father of eight
sons; sometimes six Rāgiṇīs are assigned to each
Rāga); a musical note, harmony, music; the quality
Rajas, q. v.; feeling or mental affection in general,
love, sympathy, interest in anything, joy, pleasure;
vehement longing or desire; regret, sorrow; greedi-
ness, envy; anger, wrath; loveliness, beauty, charm,
attraction; nasalization; N. of a particular process in
the preparation of quicksilver; a king, prince; the
sun; the moon;
(ā), f. Eleusine Coracana, a sort of
grain (commonly called Rāggy, much cultivated in
the south of India); N. of the second daughter of
Aṅgiras; [cf. according to some, Gr. ὀργή, perhaps
for ῥογή.]
—Rāga-khāḍava, see
rāga-ṣāḍava. —Rāga-khāṇḍava, am, n. a kind of sweetmeat;
[cf.
rāga-ṣāḍava.]
—Rāga-khāṇḍavika, as, m. a
maker of the above sort of sweetmeat.
—Rāga- cūrṇa, as, m. Acacia Catechu (a tree yielding an
astringent resin, the wood of which is used in dye-
ing); a red powder (which the Hindūs throw over
each other at the vernal festival called Holi; cf.
holākā); red lead; lac; Kāma-deva, the god of
love.
—Rāga-cchanna, as, m. the god of love or
Kāma-deva; N. of Rāma.
—Rāga-da, as, ā, am, colour-giving, colouring, passion-inspiring; (
as), m.
a kind of shrub,
= tairaṇī; (ā), f. ‘producing
various colours,’ crystal.
—Rāga-dravya, am, n.
‘colour-substance,’ paint, dye.
—Rāga-paṭṭa, a kind
of precious stone.
—Rāga-puṣpa, as, m. Penta-
petes Phœnicea; the red globe-amaranth; (
ī), f.
the Chinese rose.
—Rāga-prasava, as, m. Penta-
petes Phœnicea; the red globe-amaranth.
—Rāga- bandha, as, m. the connection of the Rāgas, ex-
pression or manifestation of affection, affection,
passion.
—Rāga-bandhin, ī, inī, i, exciting or
inflaming the passions.
—Rāga-bhañjana, as, m.,
N. of a Vidyā-dhara.
—Rāga-mañjarikā, f. a dimi-
nutive from
rāga-mañjarī below (‘wicked Rāga-
mañjarī’).
—Rāga-mañjarī, f., N. of a woman.
—Rāga-maya, as, ī, am, ‘consisting of colour or
of red colour,’ red-coloured, red; dear, beloved.
—Rāga-mālā, f. ‘string or series of musical Rāgas,’
a chapter on the subject of musical Rāgas; N. of a
work on the musical Rāgas by Kṣema-karṇa.
—Rāga-yuj, k, m. a ruby.
—Rāga-rajju, us, m.
Kāma-deva, the god of love.
—Rāga-latā, f. ‘Pas-
sion-creeper, Passion-flower,’ N. of Rati (wife of
Kāma-deva).
—Rāga-lekhā, f. a streak or line of
paint, stroke, the mark of dye.
—Rāga-vat, ān, atī, at, having colour, coloured, red; impassioned.
—Rā- ga-vibodha, as, m., N. of a celebrated treatise on
the musical Rāgas and theory of music.
—Rāga- vṛnta, as, m. ‘Passion-stalk,’ N. of Kāma-deva,
the god of love.
—Rāga-ṣāḍava, as, m. a sweet-
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with a kind of broth made from Phaseolus Mungo;
(according to others) half ripe mango fruit made
into syrup with ginger, cardamoms, oil, butter, &c.,
(also written
rāga-khāḍava, rāga-ṣāḍhava; cf.
rāga-khāṇḍava.)
—Rāga-sūtra, am, n. any
coloured thread or string; a silk thread; the string
of a balance.
—Rāgāṅgī (°ga-aṅ°) or
rāgāḍhyā (°ga-āḍh°), f. Rubia Munjista
(= mañjiṣṭhā). —Rāgātmaka (°ga-āt°), as, ikā, am, composed
of or characterized by passion, impassioned.
—Rāgā- nugāvivṛti (°ga-an°), is, f., N. of a work.
—Rā- gāndha (°ga-an°), as, ā, am, blind with passion
or desire.
—Rāgānvita (°ga-an°), as, ā, am, having
colour or dye, coloured; affected by passion or
desire.
—Rāgāyāta (°ga-āy°), am, n. excess of
passion, the coming on or uprising of excessive
passion.
—Rāgārṇava (°ga-ar°), as, m., N. of a
work on the musical Rāgas.
—Rāgārha (°ga-ar°), as, ā, am, worthy of affection, any suitable object
of affection.
—Rāgāśani (°ga-aś°), is, m. a Bud-
dha; a Jina.
—Rāgodreka (°ga-ud°), as, m. excess
of passion.
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