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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
374.
of Videba 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. Râgastambayana. See Yaghavatas
Râgastambayana. Rågasûya, III, introd. xi, xxiv-xxvi;
belongs to king and makes him king, III, 4; inferior to Vågapeya, 4; IV, 225; performance, NI, 43 seg.; is Varuna-sava, 76; a supernumerary (special)
rite, 346. raggudala (Cordia Myxa) V, 373, Råhägana. See Gotama Râhûgana. Raikva, III, 107. rain, from clouds arising from smoke
(steam), III, 183; 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 sweat- pores, 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-saman, III, introd. xxi,
xxii; connected with pankti, • trayastrimia, &c., 91; såkvara
and raivata produced from trinava and trayastrimsa, IV, 12; connected with Brihaspati, Visve Devåb, the upper region,
&c., 103. Raka, pap offered to her, (the ex
treme end of) one of the four
regions, IV, 264. Rakshas,-safety from, III, 45; suck
out creatures, 49; smitten by Indra and Agoi, 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 Deva
ganavidyâ their Veda, 367, 368. rakshovidya, V, 368 n. ram, sacrificial animal, III, 162, 165
seq.; slaughtered for Trashtri, 162; is vigour, IV, 38; vicious ram (aitaka) an unclean animal, V, 178; originates from Indra's
Dose, 215. Råma, son of Dasaratha, III, 97. Rama Mârgaveya, one of the Sya
parna family of priests, IV, 345D. rampart, threefold, III, 212, 213. râshtrabhrit oblations, at (consecra
tion of) Agnikayana, IV, 339. rasmi, rein, III, 101. Rathagritsa, Agni's commander-in
chief (senäni), is the first spring
month, IV, 105. rathantara-saman, III, introd. xiv,
xv; connected with Agni, xv; with the brahman, &c., 91; at kesavapaniya used for first prishuba and for sandhi-stotra, 127; produced from trivit, IV, 3; (rathantara-kbandas is the earth, 89); connected with Agni, the Vasus, east, trivrit and ágyasastra, 100; sung over completed altar, is this
earth, 179; etymology, 179. Rathaprota, Aditya's commander-in
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