<Ul> <Li> Rādhā (राधा): Rādhā is one of the gopis (cow - herding girls) of the forest of Vrindavan, Krishna plays with her during his upbringing as a young boy; The other Radha is the wife of the charioteer Adhiratha, who found an abandoned new - born boy, whom he named Karna . </Li> <Li> Rāhu (राहु): Rahu is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses . Rahu is one of the navagrahas . </Li> <Li> Raibhya (रैभ्य): A sage whose hermitage was situated on the banks of the Ganges, near Rishikesh, a place, which gets its name, from Lord Vishnu appearing to him as Hrishikesh . The Pandavas during their wanderings visited it . This ghat was very holy . Bharata, son of Dasharatha bathed here . Indra was cleansed of his sin of killing Vritra unfairly by bathing in this ghat . Sanatkumar became one with God . Aditi, mother of the gods, prayed here to be blessed with a son . </Li> <Li> Radheya (राधेय): Son of Radha, a name of Karna, who as a foundling was brought up as a son by Radha, the wife of the Charioteer Adhiratha . </Li> <Li> Rajasūya (राजसूय): A sacrifice performed by a king to be entitled to assume the title of "Emperor". </Li> <Li> Rā́kṣasaḥ (रा॑क्षस): A rakshasa alternately, raksasa or rakshas is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hinduism . </Li> <Li> Rāma (राम): The Seventh Avatara of Vishnu . The life and heroic deeds of Rama are written in the Sanskrit epic, The Ramayana . </Li> <Li> Ramanaka dwīpa (रमणक द्वीप): The home of Kaliya Naga, a poisonous hydra, on the banks of Yamuna river . </Li> <Li> Rāmāyaṇa (रामायण): Part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki . This epic of 24,000 verses in seven kandas (chapters or books) tells of a Raghuvamsa prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the rakshasa Ravana . </Li> <Li> Rāma - navamī (राम नवमी): A Hindu festival, celebrating of the birth of Lord Rama . The day falls on the Navami, ninth day of the Chaitra month of Hindu lunar year in' Shukla paksha' . </Li> <Li> Rambhā (रम्‍भा): An apsara in the court of Indra . </Li> <Li> Ratī (रती): Ratī is the goddess of passion and lust, and a daughter of Daksha . She married Kamadeva, the God of love . </Li> <Li> Rāvaṇa (रावण): King of Lanka who abducted Sita, the beautiful wife of Ramachandra . Ravana is depicted in art with up to ten heads, signifying that he had knowledge spanning all the ten directions . </Li> <Li> Rewatī (रेवती): Daughter of Raja Rewat of Arntā who marries Balarama </Li> <Li> Ṝgveda (ऋग्वेद): The Rigveda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted as the holiest of the four religious texts of Hindus, known as the Vedas . </Li> <Li> Rishabha (ऋषभ): Rsabha, the bull, a Hindu god mentioned in epic and Puranic literature, is an unusual avatar of Vishnu . The second note of the Indian gamut (Shadja, rishabha, gandhara, madhyama, panchama, daivata, nishada - sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni .) </Li> <Li> Ṛta (ऋतं): Vedic principle of natural order believed to regulate and coordinate the operation of the universe on the natural, moral and sacrificial levels . </Li> <Li> Ṛṣi (ऋषि): Rishi, also known as Mantradraṣṭa ("seer of the Mantras") and Vedavaktāra ("chanter of the Vedas") is a seer who "heard" (cf . śruti) the hymns of the Vedas . A rishi is regarded as a combination of a patriarch, a priest, a preceptor, an author of Vedic hymns, a sage, a saint, an ascetic, a prophet and a hermit into a single person . </Li> <Li> Rishyamūk (ऋष्यमूक): Mountain on which Sugriva dwelt . </Li> <Li> Rishyasringa (ऋष्यश्रृंग): Son of sage Vibhandaka, who had grown up seeing no mortal except his father . The king of Anga, which was afflicted with a dire famine, to bring rain and plenty, invited him . </Li> <Li> Rituparṇa (ऋतुपर्ण): The king of Ayodhya to whom Nala became the charioteer . </Li> <Li> Rohiṇi (रोहिणि): The wife of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama </Li> <Li> Romapada (रोमपद): King of Anga which was once visited by a great drought . </Li> <Li> Rudra (रुद्र): A Rigvedic god of the storm, the hunt, death, Nature and the Wind . Rudra is an early form of Shiva and a name of Shiva in the Shiva sahasranama . </Li> <Li> Rudra nritya (रुद्र नृत्‍य): Shiva's cosmic dance of destruction . </Li> <Li> Rukma (रुक्‍म): Elder brother of Rukmiṇī, Heir apparent to the throne of Vidarbha . When defeated by Balarama and Krishna he established a new city Bhojakata, ashamed to return to Kundinapura, the capital of Vidarbha, and ruled over it . </Li> <Li> Rukmiṇī (रुक्‍मिणी): Daughter of Raja Bhishmak, born at Kundalpur . Rukmini was the first wife and queen of Krishna, the 8th avatar of Vishnu . She was an avatar of Lakshmi . </Li> <Li> Ruparekha (रूपरेखा): Lit . meaning a treak of Beauty . A statue in the throne of Vikramaditya . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Rādhā (राधा): Rādhā is one of the gopis (cow - herding girls) of the forest of Vrindavan, Krishna plays with her during his upbringing as a young boy; The other Radha is the wife of the charioteer Adhiratha, who found an abandoned new - born boy, whom he named Karna . </Li> <Li> Rāhu (राहु): Rahu is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses . Rahu is one of the navagrahas . </Li> <Li> Raibhya (रैभ्य): A sage whose hermitage was situated on the banks of the Ganges, near Rishikesh, a place, which gets its name, from Lord Vishnu appearing to him as Hrishikesh . The Pandavas during their wanderings visited it . This ghat was very holy . Bharata, son of Dasharatha bathed here . Indra was cleansed of his sin of killing Vritra unfairly by bathing in this ghat . Sanatkumar became one with God . Aditi, mother of the gods, prayed here to be blessed with a son . </Li>

Sanskrit term referring to the caste of servant in india