rájju f. (ifc. sometimes m

• in earlier language also rajjū, f

• Ved. acc. rajjvam

• gen. rajjvās Mn. xi, 168

• probably fr. an unused √rasj, or rajj

• cf. rasanā = raśanā) a rope, cord, string, line RV. &c. &c. (rajjum ā-√sthā, to have recourse to the rope, to hang one's self MBh.)

• N. of partic. sinews or tendons proceeding from the vertebral column Suśr.

• a lock of braided hair, braid (= veṇī) L.

• N. of a partic. constellation VarBṛS.

• Caryota Urens L. ; a measure of 8 Hastas or 192 inches L. [Cf. Lith. reśgú, 'I plait.']