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रस f. m. (ifc. f(आ). ) 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.] गवाम् (with or scil. ) milk, [MBh.] विषस्य (with or scil. ) poison, [Daś.]; [Rājat.] 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 शिव), [Sarvad.] semen virile, [RV. i, 105, 2] myrrh, [L.] any mineral or metallic salt, [Cat.] उप a metal or mineral in a state of fusion (cf. -, महा-र्°) gold, [L.] Vanguieria Spinosa, [L.] a species of amaranth, [L.] green onion, [L.] resin, [L.] अमृत = , [L.] मधुर taste, flavour (as the principal quality of fluids, of which there are 6 original kinds, viz. , sweet; अम्ल, sour; लवण, salt; कटुक, pungent; तिक्त, bitter; and कषाय, 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.] उपरि taste or inclination or fondness for (loc. with or scil. , or comp. ), love, affection, desire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. charm, pleasure, delight, ib. शृङ्गार (in rhet. ) the taste or character of a work, the feeling or sentiment prevailing in it (from 8 to 10 रसs are generally enumerated, viz. , love; वीर, heroism; बीभत्स, disgust; रौद्र, anger or fury; हास्य, mirth; भयानक, terror; करुण, pity; अद्भुत, wonder; शान्त, tranquillity or contentment; वात्सल्य, paternal fondness; the last or last two are sometimes omitted; cf. under भाव), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.]; [Kāvyâd.] &c. the prevailing sentiment in human character, [Uttarar.]; [Rājat.] भक्ति (with वैष्णवs) disposition of the heart or mind, religious sentiment (there are 5 रसs or रतिs forming the 5 degrees of q.v. , viz. शान्ति, दास्य, साख्य, वात्सल्य, and माधुर्य), [W.] a kind of metre, [Piṅg.] N. of the sacred syllable, ‘Om,’ [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] the son of a निषाद and a शनकी, [L.]
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