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of Videha called thus, V, 113.
rågaputra, a hundred princes born in wedlock to be the guardians of the sacrificial-horse, V, 288; those who reach the end of the
year's keeping become sharers in the royal sway, 288, 289. Ragastambayana. See Yagnavalas
Ragastambayana.
Ragasiya, III, introd. xi, xxiv-xxvi; belongs to king and makes him king, III, 4; inferior to Vâgapeya, 4; IV, 225; performance, III, 43 seq.; is Varuna-sava, 76; a supernumerary (special) rite, 246. raggudâla (Cordia Myxa) V, 373, 374.
Ráhugama. See Gotama Râhûgana. Raikva, III, 107. rain, from clouds arising from smoke (steam), III, 185; from smoke sent up by the earth, 383; falls both on ploughed and unploughed land, 336; represented by the apasya bricks, IV, 34; falls everywhere in the same direction, 35; is in the wind, 35; falls abundantly in the rainy season, not in autumn, 49; rain and wind, connected with Mitra-Varuna, freed from death through ekavimsa-stoma, 68; is the arrows of the Rudras in the sky, 164; is ruled over by Maruts, 170; produces a well-ordered state of society, V, 18; sounds like a chant, 45; rain-drops, as many as sweatpores, hair-pits, and twinklings of the eye, 169; hail and lightning two terrible forms of it, 251; the sky, rain, the first conception, 315. rainy season, produced from the eye, and from it the Gagati, IV, 8; consists of months Nabhas and Nabhasya, 48; rainy season and autumn are the air-world, and the middle of the year,
49.
raivata (and sâkvara) -sâman, is a prishtba-sâman, III, introd. xxi, xxii; connected with pankti, trayastrimua, &c., 91; sâkvara
and raivata produced from trinava and trayastrimsa, IV, 12; connected with Brihaspati, Visve Devâb, the upper region, &C, 103.
Râka, pap offered to her, (the extreme end of) one of the four regions, IV, 264.
Rakshas, safety from, III, 45; suck out creatures, 49; smitten by Indra and Agni, 51; swept away by the gods, 52; kept by continuous libation from coming after the gods, 191; kept off from south, and sacrifice spread in place free from danger and devilry, 199; seek to hinder the gods from sacrificing, 357; are the associates of the night, 361; rakshas-killing counter-charm, 53, 371, 372; repelled by thunderbolt, 372; harass those wandering in a wild forest, V, 160; Kubera Vaisravana their king, the Devaganavidya their Veda, 367, 368.
rakshovidyâ, V, 368 n. ram, sacrificial animal, III, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Tvashtri, 162; is vigour, IV, 38; vicious ram (aidaka) an unclean animal, V, 178; originates from Indra's
nose, 215. Råma, son of Dasaratha, III, 97. Råma Mârgaveya, one of the Syå
parna family of priests, IV, 345 n. rampart, threefold, III, 212, 213. râshtrabhrit oblations, at (consecration of) Agnikayana, IV, 229. rasmi, rein, III, 101. Rathagritsa, Agni's commander-inchief (senani), is the first springmonth, IV, 105. rathantara-sâman, III, introd. xiv, xv; connected with Agni, xv; with the brahman, &c., 91; at kesavapaniya used for first prishiba and for sandhi-stotra, 127; produced from trivit, IV, 5; (rathantara-kbandas is the earth, 89); connected with Agni, the Vasus, east, trivrit and agyasastra, 100; sung over completed altar, is this earth, 179; etymology, 179. Rathaprota, Aditya's commander-in
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