रामचन्द्र [ rāmacandra ] [ rāma-candra ] m. " Rāmas-moon " , N. of the principal Rāma called Dāśarathi , as son of Daśa-ratha , and Rāghava , as descended from Raghu (although the affix [ candra ] seems to connect him with the moon , he is not , like Kṛishṇa and Bala-rāma , of the lunar but of the solar race of kings ; he forms the 7th Avatāra of Vishṇu and is the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa , who , to recover his faithful wife Sītā , advanced southwards , killed the demon Rāvaṇa and subjugated his followers the Rākshasas , the poetical representatives of the barbarous aborigines of the south) Lit. RāmatUp. ( Lit. IW. 330 Lit. RTL. 110)

   N. of various kings and authors (also with [ ācārya ] , [ kavi ] , [ kṣiti-pati ] , [ cakra-vartin ] , [ daṇḍin ] , [ dīkṣīta ] , [ naimiṣa-stha ] or [ vājapeyin ] , [ nyāya-vāg-īśa ] , [ parama-haṃsa ] , [ pāṭhaka ] , [ bhaṭṭa ] , [ bhaṭṭācārya ] , [ bhārgava ] , [ bhiṣaj ] , [ miśra ] , [ yajvan ] , [ yatīśvara ] , [ vācas-pati ] , [ śāstrin ] , [ sārasvatī ] , [ siddha ] ) Lit. Cat.