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.]