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rātri

rā́tri f(i or I). or (older) rā́trī (prob. ‘bestower’, fr. √ rā; or ‘season of rest’, fr. √ ram) night, the darkness or stillness of night (often personified), [RV.] &c. &c. (°trau ind. or °tryām ind. at night, by night; rātrau śayanam, a festival on the 11th day of the first half of the month Āṣāḍha, regarded as the night of the gods, beginning with the summer solstice, when Viṣṇu reposes for four months on the serpent Śeṣa)

= ati-rātra, [ŚBr.]

= rātri-paryāya, [ib.]

= rātri-sāman, [Lāṭy.]

(only ) one of the 4 bodies of Brahmā, [VP.]

= haridrā, turmeric, [MBh.]; [Suśr.]

(with the patr. bhāradvājī) N. of the authoress of [RV. x, 127]; [Anukr.]