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. REKHA: A line. 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. S. SABHA: A meeting. SÁDÁSÁTI PANOTI: A panoti extending over seven years and a half. SÁDHAN: Accomplishment. SÁDHU: A saint. SAGAR: A king of the Solar race, an ancestor of Ráma. SAHÁN: A levigating slab. SAHASRABHOJAN: Feeding a thousand Bráhmans. SAITÁN: An order of ghosts. SAIYED: A name for Musalmáns directly descended from the Prophet. SAKHARADO: A kind of disease. SAKHOTIA: Name of a tree. SAKINI: An order of ghosts. SÁKSHI: Witness. SALÁM: The word used in salutation by and to Muhammadans and other people not Hindu. SALBAYA: Name of a deity. SAMÁCHARI: The death anniversary. SAMÁDH: The edifice which is erected over the burial-place of a Sanyási or saint; deep and devout meditation. SAMÁDHI: See Samádh. SAMAI: A brass lamp. SÁMÁNYA PUJA: Ordinary worship. SAMBANDHA: Spirit of a Bráhman who dies without an heir and whose funeral rites have not been performed. SÁMELU: A log of wood. SÁMISHYA: Entering the divine order. SAMPAT SHANIWÁR: Wealth-giving Shaniwár, a Saturday in the month of Shrávan. SAMUDRA: The sea. SAMVAT: A year. SAMVATSAR: A year; A period of three cycles of twenty years each, that is sixty years. SAMVATSARI: Death anniversary. SÁMVATSARIK SHRÁDDHA: The yearly Shráddha. SANATKUMAR: One of the four sons of Brahma. SANCHAL: A kind of salt. SANDHYA: The morning, noon or evening prayers of a Bráhman. SANDHYA ÁRATI: Offerings of Milk, sugar and cakes to the gods in the evening. SANIPÁT: Delirium. SÁNKAL: A chain. SANKAR: A stone. SANKASTI CHATURTHI: The fourth lunar day of every dark fortnight. SANKRÁNT: Transit or passage of the sun or a planet from one sign of the zodiac into another. SANKRÁNTI: See Sankránt. SANYÁSI: The Bráhman of the fourth order, the religious mendicant.