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.