राम [ rāma ] [ rāma ] m. f. n. (prob. " causing rest " , and in most meanings fr. √ [ ram ] ) dark , dark-coloured , black ( cf. [ rātri ] ) Lit. AV. Lit. TĀr. ( [ rāmaḥ śakuniḥ ] . a black bird , crow Lit. KāṭhGṛ. Lit. Vishṇ.)

white (?) Lit. L.

pleasing , pleasant , charming , lovely , beautiful Lit. MBh. Lit. Kāv.

[ rāma ] m. a kind of deer Lit. Car.

a horse Lit. L.

a lover Lit. VarBṛS.

pleasure , joy , delight Lit. BhP.

N. of Varuṇa. Lit. L.

N. of various mythical personages (in Veda two Rāmas are mentioned with the patr. Mārgaveya and Aupatasvini ; another Rāmas with the patr. Jāmadagnya ( cf. below ) is the supposed author of Lit. RV. x , 110 ; in later times three Rāmas are celebrated , viz. 1. Paraśu-rāma ( q.v. ) , who forms the 6th Avatāra of Vishṇu and is sometimes called Jāmadagnya , as son of the sage Jamad-agni by Reṇukā , and sometimes Bhārgava , as descended from Bhṛigu ; 2. Rāma-candra ( see below ) ; 3. Bala-rāma ( q.v. ) , " the strong Rāma " , also called Halâyudha and regarded as elder brother of Kṛishṇa ( Lit. RTL. 112 ) accord. to Jainas a Rāma is enumerated among the 9 white Balas ; and in Lit. VP. a Rāmas is mentioned among the 7 Ṛishis of the 8th Manv-antara) Lit. RV. N. of a king of Malla-pura Lit. Cat.

of a king of Śṛiṅga-vera and patron of Nāgêśa Lit. ib.

of various authors and teachers (also with [ ācārya ] , [ upādhyāya ] , [ kavi ] , [ cakra-vartin ] , [ jyotir-vid ] , [ jyau- ] [ tiṣaka ] , [ tarka-vāg-īśa ] , [ dīkṣita ] , [ daiva-jña ] , [ paṇḍita ] , [ bhaṭṭa ] , [ bhaṭṭācārya ] , [ vājapeyin ] , [ śarman ] , [ śāstrin ] , [ saṃyamin ] , [ sūri ] ) Lit. Cat.

N. of the number " three " (on account of the 3 Rāmas) Lit. Hcat. ( [ rāmasya iṣuḥ ] , a kind of cane = [ rāmakaṇḍa ] Lit. L.)

pl. N. of a people Lit. VP.

[ rāmā ] f. a beautiful woman , any young and charming woman , mistress , wife , any woman Lit. KaṭhUp. Lit. MBh. (for comp. see p.878)

a dark woman i.e. a woman of low origin Lit. TS. Lit. TĀr.

N. of various plants (Jonesia Asoka ; Aloe Perfoliata ; Asa Foetida ) Lit. L. vermilion Lit. L.

red earth Lit. L.

a kind of pigment (= [ gorocanā ] ) Lit. L.

a river Lit. L.

a kind of metre Lit. L.

(in music) a kind of measure Lit. Saṃgīt.

N. of an Apsaras Lit. L. Sch.

of a daughter of Kumbhâṇḍa Lit. Hariv.

of the mother of the ninth Arhat of the present Ava-sarpiṇī Lit. L.

[ rāmī ] f. darkness , night Lit. RV.

[ rāma ] n. id. Lit. ib.

the leaf of Laurus Cassia Lit. L.

Chenopodium Album Lit. L.

= [ kuṣṭha ] Lit. L.