rása m. (ifc. f. ā) the sap or juice of plants, Juice of fruit, any liquid or fluid, the best or finest or prime part of anything, essence, marrow RV. &c. &c • water, liquor, drink MBh. Kāv. &c • juice of the sugar-cane, syrup Suśr. • any mixture, draught, elixir, potion R. BhP. • melted butter L. • (with or scil. gavām) milk MBh. • (with or scil. viṣasya) poison Daś. Rājat. [Page 869, Column 3] • nectar L. • soup, broth L. • a constituent fluid or essential juice of the body, serum, (esp.) the primary juice called chyle (formed from the food and changed by the bile into blood) ib. • mercury, quicksilver (sometimes regarded as a kind of quintessence of the human body, else where as the seminal fluid of Śiva) Sarvad. • semen virile RV. i, 105, 2 • myrrh L. • any mineral or metallic salt Cat. • a metal or mineral in a state of fusion (cf. upa-, mahā-r○) • gold L. • Vanguieria Spinosa L. • a species of amaranth L. • green onion L. • resin L. • = amṛta L. • taste, flavour (as the principal quality of fluids, of which there are 6 original kinds, viz. madhura, sweet • amla, sour • lavaṇa, salt • kaṭuka, pungent • tikta, bitter • and kaṣāya, astringent • sometimes 63 varieties are distinguished, viz. beside the 6 original ones, 15 mixtures of 2, 20 of 3, 15 of 4, 6 of 5, and 1 of 6 flavours) ŚBr. &c. &c • N. of the number 'six' VarBṛS. Śrutab. • any object of taste, condiment, sauce, spice, seasoning MBh. Kāv. &c • the tongue (as the organ of taste) BhP. • taste or inclination or fondness for (loc. with or scil. upari, or comp.), love, affection, desire MBh. Kāv. &c • charm pleasure, delight ib. • (in rhet.) the taste or character of a work, the feeling or sentiment prevailing in it (from 8 to 10 Rasas are generally enumerated, viz. śṛṅgāra, love • viira, heroism • bībhatsa, disgust • raudra, anger or fury • hāsya, mirth • bhayānaka, terror • karuṇa, pity • adbhuta, wonder • śānta, tranquillity or contentment • vātsalya, paternal fondness • the last or last two are sometimes omitted • under. bhāva) Bhar. Daśar. Kāvyâd. &c • the prevailing sentiment in human character Uttarar. Rājat. • (with Vaishṇavas) disposition of the heart or mind, religious sentiment (there are 5 Rasas or Ratis forming the 5 degrees of bhakti, q.v., viz. śānti, dāsya, sākhya, vātsalya, and mādhurya) W. • a kind of metre Piṅg. • N. of the sacred syllable, 'Om, 'cf. ŚāṅkhGṛ • the son of a Nishāda and a Śanakī L. • (ā), f. s.v