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RABÁRI: A caste of shepherds.
RÁDHA: A man dressed in woman’s clothes as a dancer; name of a sweetheart of Krishna.
RADIO: Crying.
RÁFDA: A kind of jujube tree.
RAGATIO: An order of ghosts.
RÁHU: A demon with the tail of a dragon whose head was severed from his body by Vishnu. The head and tail, retaining their separate existence, were transferred to the planetary heavens, and became, the first, the eighth planet, and the second (Ketu) the ninth.
RAINÁDEVI: Name of a goddess.
RÁJÁH: A king.
RÁJAYAJNA: A kind of sacrifice.
RÁJBÁI MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
RÁJBHOG ARATI: The ceremony of offering dainties and cooked food to the gods.
RAJPUTÁNI: Wife of a Rajput; a Rajput woman.
RÁKHADI: A piece of silk thread.
RAKHEVÁLIO: An order of ghosts.
RÁKSHASA: A demon.
RÁLA: Panic seed.
RÁLE: Panic seed.
RAMALASHÁSTRA: The science of divining by means of figures or lines and dice.
RÁMANAVAMI: The ninth day of the bright half of Chaitra celebrated as the birth day of Ráma.
RÁMÁNUJA: Name of a great saint and philosopher who founded a sect of Vaishnavism.
RÁMÁYANA: An epic poem by Válmiki describing the exploits and adventures of Ráma.
RÁMCHANDRA: A name of Ráma.
RÁMESHWAR: A name of Shiva.
RÁMNÁTH: Name of a deity.
RÁNDAL: Name of a goddess who presides over child-birth.
RÁNDHAN CHHETHA: The cooking sixth, the sixth day of the dark half of Shráwan.
RANGPANCHAMI: The fifth day of the dark half of Phálgun on which coloured water is thrown.
RÁNJANI: A kind of tree.
RANNA DEVI: Name of a goddess who presides over child-birth.
RÁNO: A Lord.
RÁSHI: Signs of the Zodiac.
RATANVO PÁRO: A kind of stone.
RATANWA: A kind of skin disease.
RATH: A charriot.
RATHA SAPTAMI: The seventh day of the bright half of Mágh.
RATNA: A jewel.
RATNESHWAR MAHÁDEVA: A name of Shiva.
RÁUL: A caste of Hindus or an individual of it.
RÁVAL: See Rául.
RAVALNÁTH: Name of a spirit; name of a village deity.
RÁVAN: Name of the demon king of Lanka or Ceylon.
RAVI: The sun.
RAWALNÁTH: See Ravalnáth.
RÁYAN: A tree, Mimusops hexandra.
RELA: A stream.
REVATI: Name of a constellation.
REWADI: A preparation of sesamum and sugar.
RIKTA: Unfruitful, inauspicious.
RISHI PUNCHAMI: The fifth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad.
RITU: A season.
ROHINI: Name of a constellation.
ROPANI: Transplanting.
ROT: A loaf prepared from eight kinds of grain.
ROTAL: Womanish.
RUDRA: An order of semi-divine beings.
RUDRÁBHISHEKA: The ceremony of pouring water in a constant stream over the image of Shiva for eleven consecutive days and nights.
RUDRÁKSHA: A tree sacred to Shiva. Eleocarpus ganitrus.
RUDRÁKSHA MÁLA: A rosary of 108 beads of the rudráksha wood.
RUDRAYÁG: A sacrifice in honour of the god Shiva.
RUI: A tree, calotropis gigantea.
RUPO: Handsome.
RUTU: Name of a sage.
RUTUSHÁNTI: The marriage consummation ceremony.