mf(A/)n. (prob. ‘causing rest’, and in most meanings fr. √ ram) dark, dark-coloured, black (cf. rātri), [AV.]; [TĀr.] (rāmaḥ śakuniḥ. a black bird, crow, [KāṭhGṛ.]; [Viṣṇ.])
N. of various mythical personages (in Veda two Rāmas are mentioned with the patr. Mārgaveya and Aupatasvini; another R°s with the patr. Jāmadagnya [cf. below] is the supposed author of [RV. x, 110]; in later times three R°s are celebrated, viz. 1. Paraśu-rāma [q.v.], who forms the 6th Avatāra of Viṣṇu and is sometimes called Jāmadagnya, as son of the sage Jamad-agni by Reṇukā, and sometimes Bhārgava, as descended from Bhṛgu; 2. Rāma-candra [see below]; 3. Bala-rāma [q.v.], ‘the strong Rāma’, also called Halāyudha and regarded as elder brother of Kṛṣṇa [[RTL. 112]] accord. to Jainas a Rāma is enumerated among the 9 white Balas; and in [VP.] a R°s is mentioned among the 7 Ṛṣis of the 8th Manv-antara), [RV.] &c. &c. N. of a king of Malla-pura, [Cat.]
of a king of Śṛṅga-vera and patron of Nāgeśa, [ib.]
of various authors and teachers (also with ācārya, upādhyāya, kavi, cakra-vartin, jyotir-vid, jyautiṣaka, tarka-vāg-īśa, dīkṣita, daiva-jña, paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, bhaṭṭācārya, vājapeyin, śarman, śāstrin, saṃyamin, sūri &c.), [Cat.]
N. of the number ‘three’ (on account of the 3 Rāmas), [Hcat.] (rāmasya iṣuḥ, a kind of cane = rāmakaṇḍa, [L.])
rāma—giri m. ‘R°s's mountain’, N. of sev. mountains (esp. accord. to some, of Citra-kūṭa in Bundelkhand and of another hill near Nagpore, now called Ramtek), [Megh.]; [VP.]
rāma—līlā f. N. of the dramatic representation of Sitā's abduction by Rāvaṇa and her recovery by R° (performed at the annual festival which takes place in Northern India in the beginning of October and corresponds to the Durgā-pūjā of Bengal), [IW. 365 n. 1]
rāma—kṛṣṇa m. N. of various authors and other men (also with ācārya, dīkṣita, daiva-jña, paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, bhaṭṭācārya, bhāva, miśra, vaidyarāja, śeṣa &c.), [Cat.]
rāma—candra m. ‘R°-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 Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma, of the lunar but of the solar race of kings; he forms the 7th Avatāra of Viṣṇu 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 Rākṣasas, the poetical representatives of the barbarous aborigines of the south), [RāmatUp.] ([IW. 330]; [RTL. 110])
N. of various kings and authors &c. (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 &c.), [Cat.]