rása m. (ifc. f(A). ) the sap or juice of plants, juice of fruit, any liquid or fluid, the best or finest or prime part of anything, essence, marrow, [RV.] &c. &c.
water, liquor, drink, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
juice of the sugar-cane, syrup, [Suśr.]
any mixture, draught, elixir, potion, [R.]; [BhP.]
melted butter, [L.]
(with or scil. gavām) milk, [MBh.]
(with or scil. viṣasya) poison, [Daś.]; [Rājat.]
nectar, [L.]
soup, broth, [L.]
a constituent fluid or essential juice of the body, serum, (esp.) the primary juice called chyle (formed from the food and changed by the bile into blood), [ib.]
mercury, quicksilver (sometimes regarded as a kind of quintessence of the human body, else where as the seminal fluid of Śiva), [Sarvad.]
semen virile, [RV. i, 105, 2]
myrrh, [L.]
any mineral or metallic salt, [Cat.]
a metal or mineral in a state of fusion (cf. upa-, mahā-r°)
gold, [L.]
Vangueria Spinosa, [L.]
a species of amaranth, [L.]
green onion, [L.]
resin, [L.]
= amṛta, [L.]
taste, flavour (as the principal quality of fluids, of which there are 6 original kinds, viz. madhura, sweet; amla, sour; lavaṇa, salt; kaṭuka, pungent; tikta, bitter; and kaṣāya, astringent; sometimes 63 varieties are distinguished, viz. beside the 6 original ones, 15 mixtures of 2, 20 of 3, 15 of 4, 6 of 5, and 1 of 6 flavours), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
N. of the number ‘six’, [VarBṛS.]; [Śrutab.]
any object of taste, condiment, sauce, spice, seasoning, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
the tongue (as the organ of taste), [BhP.]
taste or inclination or fondness for (loc. with or scil. upari, or comp.), love, affection, desire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
charm, pleasure, delight, [ib.]
(in rhet.) the taste or character of a work, the feeling or sentiment prevailing in it (from 8 to 10 Rasas are generally enumerated, viz. śṛṅgāra, love; vīra, heroism; bībhatsa, disgust; raudra, anger or fury; hāsya, mirth; bhayānaka, terror; karuṇa, pity; adbhuta, wonder; śānta, tranquillity or contentment; vātsalya, paternal fondness; the last or last two are sometimes omitted; cf. under bhāva), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.]; [Kāvyād.] &c.
the prevailing sentiment in human character, [Uttarar.]; [Rājat.]
(with Vaiṣṇavas) disposition of the heart or mind, religious sentiment (there are 5 Rasas or Ratis forming the 5 degrees of bhakti, q.v., viz. śānti, dāsya, sākhya, vātsalya, and mādhurya), [W.]
a kind of metre, [Piṅg.]
N. of the sacred syllable, ‘Om’, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]
the son of a Niṣāda and a Śanakī, [L.]