rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | rAvaRa
rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | mfn. (fr. Caus.) causing to cry (with gen. or ifc.; only in this sense to explain the name of the famous Rākṣasa), MBh.; R. &c.
rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | m. N. of the ruler of Laṅkā or Ceylon and the famous chief of the Rākṣasas or demons whose destruction by Rāmacandra forms the subject of the Rāmāyaṇa (as son of Viśravas he was younger brother of Kubera, but by a different mother, Ilavila being the mother of Kubera, and Keśinī of the three other brothers Rāvaṇa Vibhīṣaṇa, and Kumbha-karṇa; he is one of the worst of the many impersonations of evil common in Hindū mythology; he has ten heads and twenty arms, symbolizing strength; this power was, as usual, acquired by self-inflicted austerities, which had obtained from Brahmā a boon, in virtue of which R˚ was invulnerable by gods and divine beings of all kinds, though not by men or a god in human form; as Viṣṇu became incarnate in Rāma-candra to destroy R˚, so the other gods produced innumerable monkeys, bears, and various semi-divine animals to do battle with the legions of demons, his subjects, under Khara, Dūṣaṇa, and his other generals), MBh.; R.; Hariv. &c. (IW. 353)
patr. fr. ravaṛa | रवऋअ |, g. ṣivādi | षिवादि |
N. of a prince of Kaśmīra, Rājat.
of various authors, Cat.
rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | n. the act of screaming &c., MW.
N. of a Muhūrta, Cat.
rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | m. N. of the ruler of Laṅkā or Ceylon and the famous chief of the Rākṣasas or demons whose destruction by Rāmacandra forms the subject of the Rāmāyaṇa (as son of Viśravas he was younger brother of Kubera, but by a different mother, Ilavila being the mother of Kubera, and Keśinī of the three other brothers Rāvaṇa Vibhīṣaṇa, and Kumbha-karṇa; he is one of the worst of the many impersonations of evil common in Hindū mythology; he has ten heads and twenty arms, symbolizing strength; this power was, as usual, acquired by self-inflicted austerities, which had obtained from Brahmā a boon, in virtue of which R˚ was invulnerable by gods and divine beings of all kinds, though not by men or a god in human form; as Viṣṇu became incarnate in Rāma-candra to destroy R˚, so the other gods produced innumerable monkeys, bears, and various semi-divine animals to do battle with the legions of demons, his subjects, under Khara, Dūṣaṇa, and his other generals), MBh.; R.; Hariv. &c. (IW. 353)
patr. fr. ravaṛa | रवऋअ |, g. ṣivādi | षिवादि |
N. of a prince of Kaśmīra, Rājat.
of various authors, Cat.
rāvaṛa | रावऋअ | n. the act of screaming &c., MW.
N. of a Muhūrta, Cat.