As a deity name
Name 665 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 824 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
[ram-ktin] 1 Pleasure, delight, satisfaction, joy; 2 Fondness for, devotion or attachment to, pleasure in (with loc.); svayoṣiti ratiḥ; 3 Love, affection; thus defines it: -ratirma…
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M2 · same meaning "ratiḥ" is "rati" with final visarga (ḥ) — regular end-of-word sandhi (Aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15, cited from the engine's own derivation). Same word.
visarga sandhi · aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15 — cited from the derivationDictionary citations
ratiḥ f. [ram-ktin] 1 Pleasure, delight, satisfaction, joy; Ś. 2. 1. 2 Fondness for, devotion or attachment to, pleasure in (with loc.); pāpe ratiṃ mā kṛthāḥ Bh. 2. 77; svayoṣiti ratiḥ 2. 62; R. 1. 23; Ku. 5. 65. 3 Love, affection; S. D. thus defines it: -ratirmanonukūle'rthe manasaḥ pravaṇāyitaṃ 207; cf. 206 also; (it is the Sthāyibhāva of the rasa called śṛṃgāra q. v.). 4 Sexual pleasure; dākṣiṇyodakavāhinī vigalitā yātā svadeśaṃ ratiḥ Mk. 8. 38; so ratisarvasvaṃ q. v. below. 5 Sexual union, coition, copulation. 6 The goddess of love, the wife of Kāma or Cupid; sākṣātkāmaṃ navamiva ratirmālatī mādhavaṃ yat Māl. 1. 15; Ku. 3. 23; 4. 45; R. 6. 2. 7 The pudenda. 8 N. of the sixth digit (kalā) of the moon. 9 Ved. Rest, cessation. Comp. — aṃgaṃ -kuharaṃ pudendum muliebre. — kara a. giving pleasure. — karman n. sexual union. — gṛhaṃ, -bhavanaṃ, -maṃdiraṃ 1 a pleasurehouse. 2 a brothel. 3 pudendum muliebre. — taskaraḥ a seducer, ravisher. — dūtiḥ -tī f. a love-messenger; Ku. 4. 16. — patiḥ, -priyaḥ, -ramaṇaḥ the god of love; api nāma manāgavatīrṇo'si ratiramaṇabāṇagocaram Māl. 1; dadhati sphuṭaṃ ratipateriṣabaḥ śitatāṃ yadutpalapalāśadṛśaḥ Śi. 9. 66. — rasaḥ sexual pleasure. — lakṣaṃ sexual union. — laṃpaṭa a. lustful, libidinous. — śaktiḥ f. manly or virile power. — śūraḥ a man of great procreative power. — sarvasvaṃ the all-in-all or highest essence of sexual pleasure; karaṃ vyādhunvatyāḥ pibasi ratisarvasvamadharaṃ Ś. 1. 24.
rati f. rest, repose, VS.; ŚāṅkhGṛ.
pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness for (loc. or comp.; ratim with √ āp, labh, upa-labh, adhi-gam, vidkṛ or bandh and loc., ‘to find pleasure in’), Up.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
Alternative readings
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