Raseshvara, Raseśvara, Rasa-ishvara: 6 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Raseśvara can be transliterated into English as Rasesvara or Raseshvara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Source: Wikipedia: RasashatraRaseśvara (रसेश्वर) was a Shaiva philosophical tradition which arose about the 1st century CE. It advocated the use of mercury to make the body immortal. This school was based on the texts Rasārṇava, Rasahṛdaya and Raseśvarasiddhānta, composed by Govinda Bhagavat and Sarvajña Rāmeśvara according to Cowell and Gough. Raseśvaras, like many other schools of Indian philosophy, believed that liberation was identity of self with Supreme lord Shiva and freedom from transmigration. However, unlike other schools, Raseśvaras thought that liberation could only be achieved by using mercury to acquire an imperishable body.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale: The Epistemological Model of Vedantic Doxography According to the SarvadarśanasaṃgrahaRaseśvara (रसेश्वर) or Raseśvaradarśana refers to the ninth chapter of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha (lit., “ompendium of all the darśanas”) by Mādhavācārya (fourteenth century CE) refers to the most famous text of the Saṃgraha literary genre dealing in 16 chapters with different darśanas or schools of Indian philosophy.—The ninth darśana is named raseśvara-darśana, and it treats of the school of Indian alchemy, whose keyword is rasa, a complex term important in Indian aesthetics and music (where it means flavour, taste, the aesthetic feeling or sentiment), but indicating in this specific context mercury, quicksilver, regarded as a sort of quintessence of the human body, as the seminal fluid of the god Śiva, the virile semen and so on. [...]
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaseśvara (रसेश्वर):—[from rasa > ras] m. ‘lord of fluids’, quicksilver
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusRasēśvara (ರಸೇಶ್ವರ):—
1) [noun] a heavy, silver-white metallic chemical element, liquid at ordinary temperatures; quicksilver; mercury.
2) [noun] one of the old Śaiva philosophical schools.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ishvara, Rasa, Raca.
Starts with: Raseshvaradarshana, Raseshvarasiddhanta.
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Full-text: Raseshvaradarshana, Raseshvarasiddhanta, Rasanayaka, Karmayoga, Siddhanta.
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