1. The sap or juice of plants or fruit.
2. The best or finest part of anything, essence.
3. Any liquid, fluid, water, drink, milk, melted butter, or soup.
4. Poison.
5. Serum or chyle in the body.
6. Quicksilver or mercury.
7. Semen virile.
8. Taste, savour, flavour, or relish.
9. A condiment, sauce, spice, or seasoning.
10. The tongue.
11. Inclination, appetite, enjoyment, love, or desire.
12. Charm, grace, beauty, sweetness, or wit.
13. Taste, style, or sentiment in a literary work.
14. Myrrh.
15. Mineral or metallic salt, or fused metal.
16. Moisture or humidity.
17. The lower world or hell.
18. The earth or ground.
रस (rasa) [Printed book page 0835-a] Rasa, as, m. (perhaps connected with rt.
ram),
the sap or juice of plants, juice of fruit; juice of the
sugar-cane, syrup; (metaphorically) the best or finest
or prime part of anything, essence, marrow; any
liquid or fluid, (
gavāṃ rasaḥ, milk), water, liquor,
drink; milk; melted butter; any mixture, draught,
elixir, potion; nectar; poison, poisonous drink;
soup, broth; a constituent fluid or essential juice of
the body, serum, (especially) the primary juice called
chyle (formed from the food and changed by the
bile into blood); mercury, quicksilver (sometimes
regarded in philosophical works as a kind of quint-
essence of the human body or as possessing some
supernatural power over its juices; elsewhere regarded
as the seminal fluid of Śiva); semen virile; taste,
savour, flavour, relish, (the six principal tastes are said
to be
madhura, amla, lavaṇa, kaṭuka, tikta, and
kaṣāya, q.q. v.v.); a symbolical expression for the
number six; anything used to give relish, a condi-
ment, sauce, spice, seasoning; the organ or instrument
of taste, the tongue; taste or inclination for anything,
appetite, enjoyment of anything, love, affection,
desire; anything that stimulates enjoyment, pleasure,
charm, grace, elegance, beauty, sweetness, spirit, wit;
taste, style, character (of a work); taste, sentiment,
feeling, emotion, pathos, affection, passion, dispo-
sition, (in dramatic composition ten Rasas are enu-
merated, viz.
śṛṅgāra, love;
vīra, heroism;
bī- bhatsa, disgust;
raudra, anger or fury;
hāsya, Page0835-b+ 81 mirth;
bhayānaka, terror;
karuṇa, pity;
adbhuta, wonder;
śānta, tranquillity or contentment;
vāt- salya, paternal fondness: according to some only
nine or eight are enumerated, the last or last two
being omitted); myrrh; any mineral or metallic salt
(as sulphur, borax, green vitriol, &c.); a metal or
mineral in a state of fusion; gold; a kind of metre
consisting of four times seventy syllables;
= śabda?; (ā), f. moisture, humidity (Ved.); N. of a river
(Ved.); a mythical stream supposed to flow round
the earth and the atmosphere (Ved.); the lower
world, hell [cf.
rasā-tala]; the earth, ground, soil;
the tongue; N. of various plants, Clypea Hernandi-
folia; Boswellia Thurifera; Panicum Italicuml; a
vine or grape;
= kākolī; (am), n. myrrh; milk;
taste; [cf. according to some, Gr. δρόσος; Lat. ros,
ror-is (for ros-is); Lith. rassa; Russ. rosa.]
—Rasa-karpūra, am, n. sublimate or muriate of
mercury (made with sulphur, mercury, and common
salt; the crystals formed in the first operation are
sublimed a second time).
—Rasa-karman, a, n. or
rasa-kalpanā, f. preparation of quicksilver, any
process undergone by quicksilver.
—Rasa-kalyā- ṇinī-vrata, am, n., N. of a particular ceremony;
of the twenty-second chapter of the Bhaviṣyottara-
Purāṇa; of the sixty-second chapter of the Matsya-
Purāṇa.
—Rasa-kulyā, f., N. of a river in Kuśa-
dvīpa.
—Rasa-ketu, us, m., N. of a prince.
—Rasa- kesara, am, n. camphor.
—Rasa-komala, am, n.
a particular mineral.
—Rasa-kriyā, f. application of
fluid remedies or fomentations.
—Rasa-gandha, as, am, m. n. gum-myrrh.
—Rasa-gandhaka, as, m.
myrrh; brimstone, sulphur.
—Rasa-garbha, am, n. a collyrium made from the juice of the Curcuma
Xanthorrhiza; a mineral preparation, vermilion.
—Rasa-graha, as, ā, am, apprehending or per-
ceiving flavours, having a taste for enjoyments, ap-
preciating pleasures; (
as), m. the organ of taste.
—Rasa-grāhaka, as, ikā, am, apprehending or
perceiving flavours, sensible of flavour.
—Rasa-gha- na, as, ā, am, Ved. full of juice, consisting entirely
of juice.
—Rasa-ghna, as, m. borax.
—Rasa-can- drikā, f., N. of Śaṅkara's commentary on the
Abhijñāna-śakuntala.
—Rasa-cintāmaṇi, is, m., N.
of a medical work.
—Rasa-ja, as, ā, am, originating
in fluids, produced from liquids; proceeding from
chyle; born in passion; (
as), m. sugar, molasses;
any insect engendered by the fermentation of liquids;
(
am), n. blood.
—Rasa-jña, as, ā, am, knowing
tastes, discriminating or appreciating flavour or excel-
lence, knowing what gives real enjoyment, knowing
the true essence of things, capable of discerning the
spirit or beauty of anything, well versed in any know-
ledge; (
as), m. a poet or man of discrimination,
any writer who understands the Rasas; an alchemist
who understands the magical properties of mercury;
a physician; a preparer of mercurial and chemical
compounds;
(ā, am), f. n. the tongue.
—Rasajña- tā, f. or
rasajña-tva, am, n. knowledge of flavours;
acquaintance with the true essence of things, poetical
skill or taste; alchemy; discrimination, skill, expe-
rience.
—Rasa-jñāna, am, n. knowledge of tastes
(a branch of medical science).
—Rasa-jyeṣṭha, as, m. the first or best taste, sweet taste, sweetness; the
sentiment of love.
—Rasa-tanmātra, am, n. the
subtile element or rudiment of taste.
—Rasa-tama, as, m., Ved. the juice of all juices, best juice, essence
of essences.
—Rasa-taraṅginī, f., N. of a treatise
on poetical sentiment or pathos by Bhānu-datta; of
another work.
—Rasa-tas, ind. according to taste or
flavour.
—Rasa-tā, f. or
rasa-tva, am, n. fluidity,
juiciness, the being chyle, state of chyle.
—Rasa- tejas, as, n. ‘strength of the chyle,’ blood.
—Rasa- da, as, ā, am, emitting juice or sap, emitting resin;
(
as), m. ‘giver of fluids or mixtures,’ a physician.
—Rasa-darpaṇa, as, m. ‘mirror of the Rasas,’
N. of a medical work.
—Rasa-dālikā, f. a kind of
sugar-cane.
—Rasa-dīpikā, f. ‘lamp of the Rasas,’
N. of a medical work.
—Rasa-drāvin, ī, m. a kind
of citron
(= madhura-jambīra).
—Rasa-dhātu, u, n. ‘fluid-metal,’ quicksilver.
—Rasa-nātha, as, Page0835-c+ 81 m. ‘chief of fluids,’ quicksilver, mercury.
—Rasa- nāyaka, as, m. ‘leader or lord of quicksilver,’ N. of
Śiva.
—Rasa-nivṛtti, is, f. cessation or loss of
taste, &c.
—Rasa-netrikā, f. realgar, red arsenic.
—Rasan-tama, as, ā, am, Ved.
= rasa-tama. —Rasa-paddhati, is, f., N. of a medical work.
—Rasa-pāka-ja, as, m. ‘produced by the cooking
of juices,’ sugar.
—Rasa-pācaka, as, m. ‘cooker of
sauces or flavours,’ a cook.
—Rasa-pārijāta, as, m.
‘the Pārijāta tree of Rasas,’ N. of a work on medi-
cine.
—Rasa-puṣpa, am, n. a particular preparation
of mercury, a kind of muriate formed by subliming
in close vessels a mixture of sulphur, mercury, and
common salt.
—Rasa-pradīpa, as, m. ‘lamp of
the Rasas,’ N. of a work on medicine; of a work
on rhetoric.
—Rasa-prabandha, as, m. ‘connection
of Rasas,’ any poetical composition, (especially) a
drama.
—Rasa-phala, as, m. a cocoa-nut tree (the
fruit of which contains a fluid).
—Rasa-bandhana, am, n. (probably) a particular part of the intestines.
—Rasa-bodha, as, m. knowledge of taste (especially
in poetic composition).
—Rasa-bhaṅga, as, m. in-
terruption or cessation of passion or sentiment.
—Rasa-bhava, am, n. ‘produced from chyle,’
blood.
—Rasa-bhasman, a, n. calx or oxide of
mercury.
—Rasa-bheda, as, m. a particular prepa-
ration of quicksilver.
—Rasa-bhedin, ī, inī, i, dis-
charging juice (said of fruits which burst with ripe-
ness).
—Rasa-bhojana, as, ā, am, feeding on
liquids or fluids; (
am), n. an entertainment given to
Brāhmans in which they are feasted with the juice
of mangoes.
—Rasa-mañjarī, f., N. of a treatise by
Bhānu-datta on the Rasas, (describing the various
kinds of heroes and heroines, their feelings, passions,
and peculiarities.)
—Rasa-maya, as, ī, am, formed
of juice or sap, consisting of fluid, juicy, liquid;
savoury; consisting of quicksilver; full of taste,
delightful, of great beauty, charming.
—Rasa-mala, am, n. the refuse of the juices (of the body), impure
excretions.
—Rasa-mahārṇava, as, m. ‘ocean of
Rasas,’ N. of a work.
—Rasa-matṛkā, f. ‘mother
of taste,’ the tongue.
—Rasa-mātra, am, n.
= rasa-tanmātra.
—Rasa-mūlā, f., N. of a Prākṛt
metre consisting of four times twenty-four instants.
—Rasa-yāmala, am, n., N. of a medical work.
—Rasa-yoga, ās, m. pl. scientifically mixed juices
or prepared mixtures.
—Rasa-ratna, am, n. ‘jewel
of Rasas,’ N. of a medical work.
—Rasa-ratna- dīpikā, f. and
rasa-ratna-pradīpa, as, m. and
rasa-ratna-hāra, as, m. and
rasa-ratnākara (°na-āk°), as, m. and
rasa-ratnāvalī (°na-āv°), f. and
rasa-rahasya, am, n., N. of various works
treating of the Rasas and of medicine.
—Rasa- rāja, as, m. ‘king of fluids,’ quicksilver;
= rasāñ- jana.
—Rasa-rāja-lakṣmī, īs, f. and
rasa-rāja- śaṅkara, and
rasa-rājahaṃsa, as, m., N. of three
medical works.
—Rasa-leha, as, m. quicksilver.
—Rasa-vat, ān, atī, at, having juice or sap, full of
juice, juicy, succulent; tasteful, sapid, savoury, luscious,
well-seasoned, well-flavoured, strong; containing the
essence (of anything); moist, well-watered; tasty,
charming, elegant, graceful, beautiful; possessing
love and the other Rasas; impassioned, full of feel-
ing (in rhetoric applied to the poetical description of
inanimate objects as affected by emotions of love and
jealousy); spirited, witty; (
atī), f. a kitchen; N.
of an erotic poem; of a supplement to the Saṅ-
kṣipta-sāra by Jūmara-nandin.
—Rasavat-tā, f.
juiciness, savouriness, sapidity; tastefulness; elegance,
beauty, gracefulness.
—Rasa-varja, as, m. avoidance
of tastes or flavours.
—Rasa-vaha, as, ā, am, bring-
ing or producing juice.
—Rasa-vikraya, as, m. the
sale of stimulating juices or liquors.
—Rasa-vikra- yin, ī, m. syrup-seller, liquor-seller, a dealer in
essences or spices.
—Rasa-vid, t, t, t, knowing
tastes, knowing or appreciating flavours, having good
taste, discriminating.
—Rasa-viśeṣa, as, m. a more
excellent juice or flavour.
—Rasa-śāstra, am, n. the
science of Rasas, alchemy.
—Rasa-śodhana, as, m.
borax; (
am), n. purification of quicksilver.
—Rasa- saṅgraha-siddhānta, as, m., N. of a medical work.
Page0836-a+ 80 —Rasa-sāgara, as, m. ‘ocean of Rasas,’ N. of a
work on medicine; of a work on rhetoric.
—Rasa- sāra, N. of a commentary on the second book of
the Kiraṇāvalī.
—Rasa-siddha, as, ā, am, brought
to perfection by means of quicksilver; skilled in
alchemy; well versed in or conversant with the
poetical Rasas, accomplished in poetry.
—Rasa-sid- dhānta-sāgara and
rasa-sindhu and
rasa-sudhā- kara and
rasa-sudhāmbhodhi (°dhā-am°) and
rasākara (°sa-āk°), N. of various works on medi-
cine or on the Rasas.
—Rasa-siddhi, is, f. per-
fection attained by means of quicksilver, knowledge
of the art of performing various chemical operations
with mercury which with certain mystical rites secure
health and wealth to the adept; skill in alchemy.
—Rasa-sindūra, am, n. a sort of factitious cin-
nabar made with zinc, mercury, blue vitriol, and
nitre fused together.
—Rasa-sthāna, am, n. cin-
nabar or vermilion.
—Rasa-hṛdaya, am, n., N. of
a work on alchemy.
—Rasā-khana, as, m. ‘digging
or scratching in the soil,’ a cock.
—Rasāgraja (°sa- ag°), am, n.
= rasāñjana.
—Rasāñjana (°sa-añ°), am, n. vitriol of copper or a sort of collyrium pre-
pared from it with the addition of Curcuma or
(according to some) from the calx of brass with
Amomum Anthorrhiza or (according to others) from
lead-ore.
—Rasāḍhya (°sa-āḍh°), as, ā, am, abounding in juice or sap, abounding in moisture;
(
as), m. Spondias Mangifera.
—Rasā-tala, am, n.,
N. of one of the seven hells or regions under the
earth, (see
pātāla); the lower world or hell in general,
(not to be confounded with Naraka or the place of
punishment); N. of the fourth astrological mansion.
—Rasātmaka (°sa-āt°), as, ikā, am, having juice
or sap for its essence, consisting of nectar; having
the nature of liquid or fluid; characterized by sapi-
dity or savour; having taste or flavour; having grace
or elegance for its essence, elegant, beautiful.
—Ra- sādāna (°sa-ād°), am, n. the taking or drawing
up of moisture, drying up or absorption of fluid,
sucking, suction.
—Rasādhāra (°sa-ādh°), as, m.
‘receptacle of fluids or moisture,’ the sun.
—Rasā- dhāraṇa (°sa-ādh°), am, n., Ved. retention of
moisture (by the sun's rays).
—Rasādhika (°sa- adh°), as, ā, am, full of taste, tasty, elegant,
abounding in enjoyments; (
as), m. borax; (
ā), f. a
species of plant.
—Rasādhipatya (°sā-ādh°), am, n. dominion over the lower world.
—Rasādhyakṣa (°sa-adh°), as, m. a superintendent of liquors or
fluids.
—Rasānupradāna (°sa-an°), am, n., Ved.
the bestowing of moisture, (according to Yāska one
of the functions of Indra.)
—Rasāntara (°sa-an°), as, m. another taste or flavour; another pleasure or
enjoyment; different passion or emotion, change of
feeling or sentiment.
—Rasā-pāyin, ī, m. ‘drinking
with the tongue,’ a dog.
—Rasābhāsa (°sa-ābh°), as, m. the semblance or mere appearance of senti-
ment, a sentiment attributed to an inanimate object;
the unsuitable manifestation of a sentiment.
—Rasā- bhiniveśa (°sa-abh°), as, m. accession of sentiment,
intentness of feeling or passion.
—Rasābhivyañjikā (°sa-abh°), f., N. of a commentary.
—Rasābhyan- tara (°sa-abh°), am, n. inside the waters.
—Ra- sāmṛta (°sa-am°) and
rasāmṛta-sindhu and
rasāmbhodhi and
rasāmbho-nidhi (°sa-am°), N.
of various medical works.
—Rasāmla (°sa-am°), as, m. a kind of sorrel (
= amala-vetasa); vinegar made
from fruit; sour sauce, (especially) tamarind sauce;
= vṛkṣāmala, cukra.
—Rasāyana (°sa-ay°), as, m. a particular drug used as a vermifuge (
= viḍaṅga);
an alchemist; N. of Garuḍa; (
ī), f. a canal or chan-
nel for the fluids (of the body), a vessel conveying
chyle, a lacteal or absorbent vessel; N. of various
plants,
= guḍūcī, kāka-mācī, mahā-karañja, go- rakṣa-dugdhā, māṃsa-cchadā; (am), n. a medi-
cine supposed to prevent old age and prolong life,
an elixir, elixir vitæ; any medicine or medicinal
compound; alchemy, chemistry, the employment
of mercury as a remedy or for magical purposes;
(according to native lexicographers also) buttermilk;
poison; long pepper (?).
—Rasāyana-phalā, f. Ter-
Page0836-b+ 81 minalia Chebula or Citrina.
—Rasāyana-śreṣṭha, as, m. ‘best of elixirs,’ mercury.
—Rasārṇava (°sa- ar°) and
rasālaṅkāra (°sa-al°), as, m. two works
on medicine.
—Rasālaya (°sa-āl°), as, m. the seat
or abode of the Rasas; the seat of enjoyments; (
ās),
m. pl., N. of a people.
—Rasāvatāra (°sa-av°), as, m., N. of a medical work.
—Rasāśa (°sa-āśa), as, m. the drinking or consuming of liquors.
—Ra- sāśin (°sa-āś°), ī, inī, i, drinking or enjoying
liquids.
—Rasāśir (°sa-āś°), īr, īr, īr, Ved. mixed
with juice or liquid, (Sāy.) mixed with milk.
—Ra- sāśvāsā (°sa-āś°), f. a kind of creeper
(= palāśī). —Rasāsvāda (°sa-ās°), as, m. the sipping of juices.
or liquids; the perception of enjoyment, sense of
joy or pleasure.
—Rasāsvādin (°sa-ās°), ī, inī, i, tasting juice, perceiving or apprehending flavours;
(
ī), m. ‘juice-sipper,’ a bee.
—Rasāhva (°sa-āh°), as, m. turpentine, the resin of Pinus Longifolia.
—Rasendra (°sa-in°), as, m. ‘chief of fluids or
metals,’ quicksilver, mercury; the philosopher's stone
(the touch of which turns iron to gold).
—Rasendra- kalpa-druma, as, m., N. of a work by Rāma-
kṛṣṇa treating of the preparation of mercury and
minerals or metals for medicinal uses.
—Rasendra- cintā-maṇi, is, m., N. of a similar work to the
above by Rāma-candra.
—Raseśvara (°sa-īś°), as, m. ‘lord of fluids or metals,’ mercury, quicksilver;
[cf.
rasendra.]
—Raseśvara-darśana, am, n. the
science of the application of mercury to various che-
mical and magical operations, the doctrine of alchemy.
—Raseśvara-siddhānta, as, m., N. of a work
establishing the efficacy of mercury in alchemy.
—Rasottama (°sa-ut°), as, m. Phaseolus Mungo,
= mudga; (am), n. (?), ‘best of liquids,’ milk.
—Rasotpatti (°sa-ut°), is, f. production of taste
or flavour; development of passion or sentiment;
generation of the vital fluids.
—Rasodadhi (°sa-ud°), is, m. ‘ocean of Rasas,’ N. of a rhetorical treatise on
the Rasas.
—Rasodbhava (°sa-ud°), am, n. ‘pro-
duced in water,’ a pearl.
—Rasopala (°sa-up°), am, n. ‘water-stone,’ a pearl.
—Rasollāsa (°sa-ul°), as, m. ‘the spontaneous evolution of the fluids (or juices
of the body, without nutriment from without),’ N.
of one of the eight Siddhis or states of perfection,
(also written
rasollāsā); springing up of desire,
increase of longing (for anything).
—Rasaukas (°sā- ok°), āṃsi, n. pl. the habitations of the lower world;
(
ās, ās, as), inhabiting the lower regions; (
ās), m.
an inhabitant of the lower world.
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