Русско-санскритский словарь / русско-санскритский словарь.
Около 30 тысяч слов санскрита.
sg. | du. | pl. | |
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Nom. | rāhuḥ | rāhū | rāhavaḥ |
Gen. | rāhoḥ | rāhvoḥ | rāhūṇām |
Dat. | rāhave | rāhubhyām | rāhubhyaḥ |
Instr. | rāhuṇā | rāhubhyām | rāhubhiḥ |
Acc. | rāhum | rāhū | rāhūn |
Abl. | rāhoḥ | rāhubhyām | rāhubhyaḥ |
Loc. | rāhau | rāhvoḥ | rāhuṣu |
Voc. | rāho | rāhū | rāhavaḥ |
राहु [ rāhu ] [ rāhú ] m. ( fr. √ [ rabh ] ; cf. [ graha ] and √ [ grah ] ) " the Seizer " , N. of a Daitya or demon who is supposed to seize the sun and moon and thus cause eclipses (he is fabled as a son of Vipra-citti and Siṃhikā and as having a dragon's tail ; when the gods had churned the ocean for the Amṛita or nectar of immortality , he disguised himself like one of them and drank a portion ; but the Sun and Moon revealed the fraud to Vishṇu , who cut off Rāhu's head , which thereupon became fixed in the stellar sphere , and having become immortal through drinking the Amṛita , has ever since wreaked its vengeance on the Sun and Moon by occasionally swallowing them ; while at the same time the tail of the demon became Ketu ( q.v. ) and gave birth to a numerous progeny of comets and fiery meteors ; in astron. Rāhu is variously regarded as a dragon's head , as the ascending node of the moon ( or point where the moon intersects the ecliptic in passing northwards ) , as one of the planets ( cf. [ graha ] ) , and as the regent of the south-west quarter ( Lit. Laghuj. ) ; among Buddhists many demons are called Rāhu) Lit. AV. ( 879,3 )
an eclipse or (rather) the moment of the beginning of an occultation or obscuration Lit. VarBṛS.