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raghu

raghú mf(vI/)n. (√ raṃh; cf. laghu) hastening, going speedily, fleet, rapid, [RV.]

light, fickle, [ib.]

raghú m. a racer, fleet courser, [ib.]

N. of an ancient king and ancestor of Rāma (described in Raghu-vaṃśa as son of Dilīpa and Su-dakṣiṇā; he was father of Aja who was father of Daśa-ratha; hence he was great-grandfather of Rāma; in the Rāmāyaṇa Raghu is said to be son of Kakutstha; in the Hari-vaṃśa two Raghus are mentioned among the ancestors of Rāma), [R.]; [Hariv.]; [Ragh.]; [Pur.] ([IW. 344])

of a son of Gautama Buddha, [Buddh.]

of various authors (also with daiva-jña and sūri), [Cat.]

= the poem raghu-vaṃśa (cf. next)

raghú m. pl. the descendants of Raghu, [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]