1. Night or the darkness and stillness of night. 2. Night personified. 3. Turmeric.
रात्रि (rātri) [Printed book page 0841-c] रात्रि (rātri) rātri, is, or
rātrī, f. (in the older
language generally
rātrī; probably fr. rt.
ram),
night, the darkness or stillness of night [cf.
rāma];
Night personified, (
rātrau, at night, by night;
rā- trau śayanam, a festival on the eleventh day of the
first half of the month Āṣāḍha, regarded as the
night of the gods beginning with the summer solstice,
when Viṣṇu reposes for four months on the serpent
Śeṣa);
= ati-rātra; = rātri-paryāya; = rātri- sāman; one of the four bodies of Brahmā, (in this
and the following senses only
rātri);
= haridrā, turmeric;
Rātri bhāradvājī, f., N. of the authoress
of the hymn Ṛg-veda X. 127.
—Rātri-kara, as, m. ‘night-maker,’ the moon.
—Rātri-kāla, as, m.
night-time.
—Rātri-cara, as, ī, am, night-wander-
ing, prowling or roaming at night; (
as), m. a night-
rover, night-prowler, thief, robber; a night-watcher,
watchman, guard, patrol; a Rākṣasa; a goblin,
ghost, fiend, evil spirit; (
ī), f. a Rākṣasa female.
—Rātri-caryā, f. night-roving, roaming about at
night; a nightly act or ceremony.
—Rātri-ja, as, ā, am, produced at night, appearing by night, noc-
turnal; (
am), n. a star, constellation.
—Rātri-jala, am, n. ‘night-water,’ dew, mist, fog.
—Rātri-jā- gara, as, m. night-watching, wakefulness at night;
(
as, ā, am), watching at night, sitting up at night;
(
as), m. a dog.
—Rātri-jāgaraṇa, am, n. the act
of sitting up all night.
—Rātrijāgara-da, as, ā, am, causing waking or wakefulness at night, keeping
awake at night; (
as), m. a gnat, musquito.
—Rā- triñ-cara = rātri-cara above.
—Rātri-tarā, f. (com-
par. of
rātri), the depth or dead of night.
—Rātri- tithi, is, f. a lunar night.
—Rātri-divam = rātrin- divam below.
—Rātri-nāśana, as, m. ‘night-
destroyer,’ the sun.
—Rātrin-diva, am, n. a night
and day, day and night;
(am, ā), ind. by night
and day.
—Rātri-pada-vicāra, as, m., N. of a
work.
—Rātri-pariśiṣṭa, am, n.
= rātri-sūkta. —Rātri-paryāya, as, m., Ved. the three recurring
sentences in the recitation of the Ati-rātra.
—Rātri- puṣpa, am, n. ‘night-flower,’ a lotus-flower which
opens during the night.
—Rātri-pūjā, f. night-wor-
ship, the nocturnal worship of a deity.
—Rātri-bala, as, ā, am, powerful by night, manifesting power at
night; (
as), m. a Rākṣasa.
—Rātri-bhojana, am, n. night-eating, the act of taking food at night.
—Rātribhojana-niṣedha, as, m., N. of a work.
—Rātrim-aṭa, as, m.
= rātry-aṭa.
—Rātri-maṇi, is, m. ‘night-jewel,’ the moon.
—Rātri-māraṇa, am, n. night-killing, a murder committed in the
night.
—Rātrim-manya, as, ā, am, thinking it
night; being regarded as night, appearing like night.
—Rātri-yoga, as, m. night-fall, the coming on of
night.
—Rātri-rakṣaka, as, m. a night-guard,
watchman, night-watcher.
—Rātri-rāga, as, m.
‘the colour of night,’ darkness, obscurity.
—Rātri- lagna-nirūpaṇa, am, n., N. of a treatise ascribed
to Kālidāsa.
—Rātri-vāsas, as, n. a night-garment,
night-dress; the garment of night, i. e. darkness,
obscurity.
—Rātri-vigama, as, m. departure of
night, break of day, dawn, day-light.
—Rātri-viśle- ṣa-gāmin, ī, inī, i, going apart at night, separating
at night; (
ī), m. the ruddy goose, Anas Casarca.
—Rātri-veda, as, or
rātri-vedin, ī, m. ‘night-
knower,’ a cock.
—Rātri-ṣāman or
rātri-sāman, a, n. a Sāman belonging to the Ati-rātra.
—Rātri- sattra, am, n., Ved. a night sacrifice, night cere-
mony.
—Rātri-sūkta or
rātrī-sūkta, am, n. epithet
of certain hymns on Night appended to Ṛg-veda X.
127.
—Rātri-hāsa, as, m. ‘laughing, i. e. opening
in the night,’ the white lotus.
—Rātri-hiṇḍaka, as, m. ‘moving about at night,’ a guard of the women's
apartments.
—Rātrī-daivodāsa or
rātrī-hava-dai- Page0842-a+ 79 vodāsa, am, n., N. of a Sāman.
—Rātry-aṭa, as, m. ‘night-moving,’ a Rākṣasa, goblin; a ghost; a
night-walker; a thief.
—Rātry-andha, as, ā, am, night-blind, unable to see by night.
—Rātryandha- tā, f. night-blindness.
—Rātry-ahanī, n. du. night
and day.
—Rātry-āgama, as, m. the coming on
or approach of night; [cf.
ahar-āgama.]
—Rātry- āndhya, am, n. night-blindness.
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