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.])
white (?), [L.]
pleasing, pleasant, charming, lovely, beautiful, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
m. a kind of deer, [Car.]
a horse, [L.]
a lover, [VarBṛS.]
pleasure, joy, delight, [BhP.]
N. of Varuṇa, [L.]
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.])
pl. N. of a people, [VP.]
n. id., [ib.]
the leaf of Laurus Cassia, [L.]
Chenopodium Album, [L.]
= kuṣṭha, [L.]