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V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.

Entry राक्षस

  1. राक्षसrākṣasaA female demon.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -सी

      1. A female demon.
      2. Laṅkā or Ceylon.
      3. Night.
      4. A larger tooth, tusk.

    • -इन्द्रः Name of Rāvaṇa.

    • -ग्रहः Name of a particular insanity or seizure.

    • -घ्नः Name of Rāma.

    • राक्षस rākṣasa, Adjective (-सी Feminine) रक्षस इदम् अण् Belonging to or like an evil spirit, demoniacal, partaking of a demon's nature; मुनयो राक्षसीमाहुर्वाचमुन्मत्तदृप्तयोः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)5.3; ततस्तद्राक्षसं सैन्यम् Rām.3.22.17; राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः Bg.9.12.

    • -सः

      1. A demon, an evil spirit, a goblin, fiend, imp.
      2. One of the eight forms of marriage in Hindu Law, in which a girl is forcibly seized and carried away after the defeat or destruction of her relatives in battle; हत्वा छित्त्वा च भित्त्वा च क्रोशन्तीं रुदतीं गृहात् । प्रसह्य कन्याहरणं राक्षसो विधिरुच्यते ॥ Ms.3.33; राक्षसो युद्धहरणात् Y.1.61. (Kṛiṣṇa carried away Rukmiṇī in this manner.)
      3. One of the astronomical Yogas.
      4. Name of a minister of Nanda, an important character in the Mudrārākṣasa.
      5. A king of the Rākṣasas.
      6. Name of the 3th Muhūrta.
      7. Name of a संवत्सर.

    In the Gita9·12

    राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः ॥

    rākṣasīmāsurīṁ caiva prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ. — All their hope, action, knowledge are vain things (when judged by the Divine eternal standard); they dwell in the Rakshasic and Asuric nature which… 9·12
    • राक्षसीम्rākṣasīmaccusative singular of the feminine form of the adjective rākṣasa (Rakshasic or demoniac).
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Headwords under र

Part 2 of 5 रमठम् – राधनम्All parts
  1. र – रमक
  2. रमठम् – राधनम्
  3. राधस् – रुदनम्
  4. रुद्ध – रोध्र
  5. रोप – रौही