rajas | रजस् | rajas
ra/jas | र/जस् | n. ‘coloured or dim space’, the sphere of vapour or mist, region of clouds, atmosphere, air, firmament (in Veda one of the divisions of the world and distinguished from div | दिव् | or svar | स्वर् |, ‘the sphere of light’, and rocanā divaḥ | रोचना दिवः |, ‘the ethereal spaces’, which are beyond the rajas | रजस् |, as ether is beyond the air; often rajas | रजस् | = ‘the whole expanse of heaven or sky’, divided into a lower and upper stratum, the rajas uparam | रजस् उपरम् | or pārṭivam | पार्टिवम् | and the rajas uttamam | रजस् उत्तमम् | or paramam | परमम् | or divyam | दिव्यम् |; hence du. rajasī | रजसी |, ‘the lower and higher atmospheres’; sometimes also three and RV. i, 164, 6 even six such spheres are enumerated, hence pl. rajāṃsi | रजांसि |, ‘the skies’), RV.; AV.; TS.; VS.; Br.
vapour, mist, clouds, gloom, dimness, darkness, RV.; AV.
impurity, dirt, dust, any small particle of matter, RV. &c. &c. (cf. go-r˚ | गो-र्˚ |)
the dust or pollen of flowers, Kālid.; BhP.
cultivated or ploughed land (as ‘dusty’ or ‘dirty’), arable land, fields, RV.
the impurity i.e. the menstrual discharge of a woman, GṛS.; Mn.; MBh.; Suśr. &c.
the ‘darkening’ quality, passion, emotion, affection, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
(in phil.) the second of the three Guṇas or qualities (the other two being sattva | सत्त्व |, goodness, and tamas | तमस् |, darkness; cf. IW. 85; rajas | रजस् | is sometimes identified with tejas | तेजस् |, q.v.; it is said to predominate in air, and to be active, urgent, and variable), Sāṃkhyak.; VarBṛS.; Suśr. &c.
‘light’ or ‘day’ or ‘world’ or ‘water’, Nir. iv, 19
a kind of plant (= parpawa | पर्पwअ |), Bhpr.
tin, L.
autumn, L.
sperm, L.
safflower, L.
ra/jas | र/जस् | m. N. of a Ṛṣi (son of Vasiṣṭha), VP.
rajas | रजस् | [cf. Gk. ἔ-ρεβος; Goth. riqis.]
vapour, mist, clouds, gloom, dimness, darkness, RV.; AV.
impurity, dirt, dust, any small particle of matter, RV. &c. &c. (cf. go-r˚ | गो-र्˚ |)
the dust or pollen of flowers, Kālid.; BhP.
cultivated or ploughed land (as ‘dusty’ or ‘dirty’), arable land, fields, RV.
the impurity i.e. the menstrual discharge of a woman, GṛS.; Mn.; MBh.; Suśr. &c.
the ‘darkening’ quality, passion, emotion, affection, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
(in phil.) the second of the three Guṇas or qualities (the other two being sattva | सत्त्व |, goodness, and tamas | तमस् |, darkness; cf. IW. 85; rajas | रजस् | is sometimes identified with tejas | तेजस् |, q.v.; it is said to predominate in air, and to be active, urgent, and variable), Sāṃkhyak.; VarBṛS.; Suśr. &c.
‘light’ or ‘day’ or ‘world’ or ‘water’, Nir. iv, 19
a kind of plant (= parpawa | पर्पwअ |), Bhpr.
tin, L.
autumn, L.
sperm, L.
safflower, L.
ra/jas | र/जस् | m. N. of a Ṛṣi (son of Vasiṣṭha), VP.
rajas | रजस् | [cf. Gk. ἔ-ρεβος; Goth. riqis.]