1. Atmosphere, air, or the sky. 2. A world or division of the universe. 3. Vapor, mist, clouds, or rain-water. 4. Gloom or darkness. 5. Impurity, dirt, dust, or any small particle of matter. 6. The pollen of flowers. 7. Cultivated or arable land. 8. The quality of passion and foulness in philosophy. 9. Emotion, feeling, or affection. 10. Menstrual excretion. 11. Tin. 12. The name of a Rishi.
रजस् (rajas) [Printed book page 0828-c] Rajas, as, n. (said to be fr. rt.
rañj in the sense
‘to colour,’ cf. rt. 2.
arj; according to some the
original meaning may have been ‘dimness,’ cf.
ra- jani and Goth. riquis), the sphere of vapour or
mist, region of clouds, atmosphere, air, firmament
(Ved.; sometimes represented as the expanse of
heaven or sky in general); any sphere or world or
division of the world (so used in Ved. according to
Yāska and Sāy.; the dual
rajasī = ‘heaven and earth,’
or perhaps ‘the lower and higher atmospheres’ im-
mediately above the earth;
trīṇi rajāṃsi = ‘the
three worlds’ or earth, atmosphere, and sky; some-
times even six such spheres are enumerated); vapour,
mist, clouds, rain-water, water (according to Nirukta
IV. 19); gloom, gloominess, dimness, darkness; im-
purity, dirt, dust, powder, speck of dust, any small
particle of matter, (
go-rajas, a speck of dust on a
cow's hair; a mote in a sun-beam;
eḍaka-rajas, a speck of dust on a sheep's fleece); the dust or
pollen of flowers; cultivated or ploughed land (as
‘dusty’), arable land, fields; the ‘darkening’ quality,
passion, foulness, impurity; (in philosophy) the
second of the three Guṇas or qualities, (the three are
called
sattva, goodness,
rajas, passion, and
tamas, darkness; cf.
guṇa; of these
rajas is sometimes
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tejas, energy or activity: it is said to
predominate in air, and to be active, urgent, and
variable); passion, emotion, feeling, affection; the
menstrual excretion; tin; (according to Nirukta IV.
19)
= jyotis, ahan; (ās), m., N. of a Ṛṣi, son of
Vasiṣṭha.
—Raja-udvāsa, as, ā, am, Ved. one
who has put off soiled clothes; [cf.
malodvāsas.]
—Rajaḥ-paṭala, am, n. a coating of dust.
—Ra- jaḥ-putra, as, m. the son of passion (a term
applied to a person when the object is to mark
his being of no particular note; cf.
rajas-toka).
—Rajaḥ-pluta, as, ā, am, filled with (the quality
of) passion.
—Rajaḥ-śaya, as, ā, am, Ved. silver,
made of silver.
—Rajaḥ-śuddhi, is, f. a pure or
right condition of the menses.
—Rajaḥ-spṛś, k, k, k, touching the dust or the ground, touching the
earth.
—Rajas-tamaska, as, ā, am, being under
the influence of the two qualities
rajas and
ta- mas, (see above.)
—Rajas-tamo-maya, as, ī, am, made up or consisting of the qualities
rajas and
tamas.
—Rajas-tur, ūr, ūr, ūr, Ved. hastening
through the sky or atmosphere, (Sāy.) dust-scattering
(
= pāṃsos tvarayitṛ) or water-scattering
(= uda- kasya preraka).
—Rajas-toka, as, am, m. n. the
child or offspring of passion; avarice, greediness.
—Rajas-vala, as, ā, am, having water (Ved.
= udaka-vat); covered with dust, dusty; full of the
quality
rajas, full of passion; (
as), m. a buffalo;
(
ā), f. a menstruating woman, a female during the
menses; a marriageable woman.
—Rajas-vin, ī, inī, i, dusty, full of dust or pollen; full of the
quality
rajas.
—Rajī-kṛ, cl. 8. P.
-karoti, &c., to
change or turn into dust.
—Rajeṣita (fr.
raja for
rajas + iṣita), according to Sāy. on Ṛg-veda VIII.
46, 28.
rajas = uṣṭra or
gardabha, iṣita = prāpita.
—Rajo-gātra, as, m., N. of a son of
Vasiṣṭha.
—Rajo-guṇa, as, m. the quality
rajas or passion, (see under
rajas.)
—Rajoguṇa-maya, as, ī, am, consisting of or having the quality
rajas. —Rajo-grahi, is, is, i, see Vopa-deva XXVI. 48.
—Rajo-darśana, am, n. the (first) appearance of
the menstrual excretion.
—Rajo-nimīlita, as, ā, am, blinded by passion or desire.
—Rajo-bandha, as, m. suppression of menstruation.
—Rajo-bala, am, n. darkness, (perhaps more correctly
rajo-vala.)
—Rajo-megha, as, m. a cloud of dust.
—Rajo-rasa, as, m. darkness.
—Rajo-hara, as, m. ‘remover of
impurity,’ a washerman.
—Rajo-haraṇa-dhārin (according to Halāyudha II. 189)
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