Raha, , a: 16 definitions
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Raha means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index(रा�).—A clan belonging to Rohita Prajāpati.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 100. 61.

The Purana (पुरा�, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara SamadhiRaha (रह) refers to a “secret�, according to the ҳܰ-ṇḍ-Բ [i.e., “Guru Mandala Worship]� ritual often performed in combination with the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, which refers to the primary ū and practice of Newah Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhists in Nepal.—Accordingly, “The letter E shape, abode of strong essence, the womb space of the lotus, Therein the midst, a secret Va� [e.g., Ṽ۲�], a beautiful bowl, the origin of all one’s self, An abode of perfectly pure awakened omniscience, beautiful divine power, And I, innately pure, praise the highest pleasure, the innate heroic couple�.

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryrahā (रह�).—f ( P) Way, manner, method, fashion, course.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishrahā (रह�).�f Way, manner fashion.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaha (रह).—m.
(-�) Solitariness, privacy. E. rah to be private, ac aff.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaha (रह).�(°�) = rahas.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaha (रह):—[from rah] m. = rahas2 [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaha (रह):�(�) 1. m. Solitariness; privacy.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary1) Raha (रह):�—an allomorph of [] used in several compound words; ~[gujara] a highway; ~[jana] a highwayman, brigand; ~[Ჹī] waylaying, brigandage; ~[Գܳ] a guide; ~[Գܳī] guidance; ~[bara] a guide; ~[ī] guidance.
2) Rahā (रह�):�(a) past tense of '[]'; -[] remaining, residual, left over.
3) (रा�) [Also spelled rah]:�(nf) a way, path; route, course; passage; -[kharca] travel expences; ~[ī] a traveller; wayfarer; pedestrian; ~[ī] a passport; octroi, toll; —[] wayfaring; a stranger; hence •[ādamī; -cāha] manners, ways; -[jana] a highwayman; brigand; -[Ჹī] waylaying; brigandage; —[dekhanā, apanī] to mind one’s own business, to go one’s way; ~[bara] a guide; ~[ī] guidance; —[/īپ] mutual relations, give and take; contacts; —[me�, khudā kī] in the name of God, for God's sake; —[첹/] to wait, to keep waiting (for); —[para lānā] to bring round; to win over; —[ū] to seek information regarding the way; to seek guidance; —[] to go one’s way; to mind one’s own business; see also [].
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Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Raha (रह) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Rah.
2) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Rabhasa.
3) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Rahas.
4) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ratha.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusRaha (ರಹ):�
1) [noun] a lonely or deserted or a private place.
2) [noun] the state or fact of being lonely; lonliness.
3) [noun] something that is known by a single person or very few people and which is kept deliberately from others knowledge; a secret.
4) [noun] a secret meeting.
5) [noun] the feeling of suprrise; wonder.
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Raha (ರಹ):�
1) [noun] that by which something is done or obtained; a means.
2) [noun] a road; a way.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary1) Raha (रह):—n. � दह [daha]
2) (रा�):—n. 1. way; road; path; street; course; 2. the amount or tax used in making road at the time of need;
3) Rāhā (राहा):—n. opinion; counsel;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
Pali-English dictionary
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) raha (ရ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
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[ရ�(ရဟေ�)+ဂတ။ နောက်ပုဒ်ကျေသည်။]
2) raha (ရ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[raha+a.ramu+a.vivittamarahatiti raho,rahacāge,ramante asminti vā raho,vaṇṇavikāro..ṭī.353.vijanavācaka rahasaddā mano .rū97.nīti,pada�133.nirutti.nhā-79.� raha-saddā ni�,2�144-a pañcikā.ra-saṃ.]
[ရ�+အ။ ရမ�+အ။ ဝိဝိတ္တမရဟတိတ� ရဟော၊ ရဟစာဂေ၊ ရမန္တ� အသ္မိန္တ� ဝ� ရဟော၊ ဝဏ္ဏဝိကာရော။ ဓာန်။ဋီ။၃၅၃။ ဝိဇနဝါစက ရဟသဒ္ဒ� မနောဂိုဏ်� ဖြစ်သည်။ ရူ၉၇။နီတိ၊ပဒ။၁၃၃။ နိရုတ္တိ။နှ�-၇၉� ၎င်� ရ�-သဒ္ဒ� နိပါတ်ပုဒ်ဖြစ်သည်။ မောဂ်၊၂။၁၄�-အဖွင့� ပဉ္စိကာ။ ရဟသ�-သံ။]
3) raha (ရ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[raha+a.rahi+a.raha cāge.rahati.raho.rahi gatiyaṃ.rahati,raho.rahaṃ.nīti,dhātu�195.pāpadhammavācaka rahasaddā rājādi .nīti,pada�217.nīti,sutta�39va.akārantapu.nirutti.nhā-1vava�(pu,na) ra-saṃ.raha(pu,na)-prā,addhamāgadhī]
[ရ�+အ။ ရဟ�+အ။ ရ� စာဂေ။ ရဟတိ။ ရဟော။ ရဟ� ဂတိယံ။ ရဟတိ၊ ရဟော။ ရဟံ။ နီတိ၊ဓာတု။၁၉၅။ ပါပဓမ္မဝါစက ရဟသဒ္ဒ� ရာဇာဒ� ဂိုဏ်းဖြစ်သည်။ နီတိ၊ပဒ။၂၁၇။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၃၉ဝ။ အကာရန္တပုလ္လိင်ဖြစ်သည်။ နိရုတ္တိ။နှ�-၁ဝဝ။ (ပု၊�) ရဟသ�-သံ။ ရ�(ပု၊�)-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ]

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+13): Rahabhava, Rahada, Rahada Sutta, Rahadariciti, Rahadaricitu, Rahah, Rahahkama, Rahahkamata, Rahahkara, Rahahsakhi, Rahahshila, Rahahshuci, Rahahstha, Rahaim, Rahaina, Rahakhani gangama, Rahakhani gangma, Rahakshati, Raham, Rahama.
Full-text (+219): Viraha, Ratha, Rahu, Rahas, Rahahstha, Virahita, Rahati, Rahahshila, Rahahshuci, Raho, Rahasu, Rahadari, Virahati, Rahassa, Rahi, Arahas, Anurahasa, Rahah, Rahasya, Rah.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Temples of Purushottama Kshetra Puri (by Ratnakar Mohapatra)
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11. Indrani Temple (in Puri) < [Chapter 6 - Shakta Temples of Purushottama Kshetra]
6. Ksetrapala Mahadeva Temple < [Chapter 5 - Shaiva Temples of Purushottama Kshetra]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study) (by Debabrata Barai)
Part 7.13 - Poetic conventions regarding to the Moon < [Chapter 5 - Analyasis and Interpretations of the Kāvyamīmāṃsā]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 5.16.24 < [Chapter 16 - Comforting Sri Radha and the Gopis]
Verse 2.15.8 < [Chapter 15 - Description of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa’s Falling in Love]
Verse 3.9.42 < [Chapter 9 - The Birth of Śrī Girirāja]
Vasudevahindi (cultural history) (by A. P. Jamkhedkar)
30. The Army (in ancient India) < [Chapter 2 - Political conditions]
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