meanings of "rasa"
m.{a-stem}
1.sap (of trees);
2.a liquid;
3.water;
4.liquor;
5.a draught;
6.taste (fig. also);
7.a sauce;
8.an object of taste;
9.taste or inclination for a thing;
10.love;
11.pleasure;
12.charm;
13.pathos;
14.(in poetic compositions) a sentiment;
15.essence;
16.a constituent fluid of the body;
17.semen virile;
18.Mercury;
19.a poison;
20.any mineral metallic salt;
21.juice of the sugar-cane;
22.milk;
23.melted butter;
24.nectar;
25.soup;
26.a symbolical expression for the number 'six';
27.green onion;
28.myrrh;
29.gold;
30.a metal in a state of fusion;
31.see rasaatalaH;
32.the tongue (as the organ of taste);
33.(with vaiSNavas) disposition of the heart or mind (the five rasas are zaanti, daasya, saakhya, vaatsalya and maadhurya)
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