The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

R!gin
R!gin ( -- ˚) [fr. r!ga] one who shows passion for, possessed of lust, affected with passion Sn 795 (cp. Nd1
100); S i.136; Vism 193, 194 (with var. characterisations).
R!jaka
R!jaka (adj.) ( -- ˚) [r!ja+ka, the ending belonging to the whole cpd.] characteristic of the king, king -- ; in
cpds. ar!jaka without a king J vi.39 (ra&&he); sar!jaka including the king Tikp 26; f. sar!jik! Vin i.209
(paris!). Also in phrase anikkhanta -- r!jake (loc. abs.) when the king has not gone out Vin iv.160.
R!jañña
R!jañña [fr. r!j!, cp, Vedic r!janya] "royalty"; a high courtier, a khattiya (= r!jabhogga, cp. Fick, Sociale
Gliederung 100) D i.103 (Pasenadi r!j! . . . uggehi v! r!janiyehi v! kañcid eva mantana' manteyya); DA
i.273 (=anabhisitt! kum!r!, i. e. uncrowned princes); Miln 234; VvA 297 (P!y!si r.).
R!jat!
R!jat! (f.) [abstr. fr. r!j!] state of being a king, kingship, sovereignty J i.119 (anuttara -- dhamma˚ being a
most righteous king).
R!jati
R!jati [r!j, cp. rajati & rañjati] to shine VvA 134 (=vij- jotati). Cp. vi˚.
R!j! (R!jan)
R!j! (R!jan) [cp. Vedic r!j!, n -- stem. To root *reg, as in Lat. rego (to lead, di -- rect, cp. in meaning Gr.
h(gemw/n): see etym. under uju. Cp. Oir. r" king, Gallic Catu -- r"x battle king, Goth reiks=Ohg. r"hhi=rich
or Ger. reich. Besides we have *reig in Ags. r!/cean= reach; Ger. reichen. -- The Dhtp only knows of one
root r!j in meaning "ditti" i. e. splendour] king, a ruling potentate. The defn at Vin iii.222 is "yo koci rajja'
k!reti." The fanciful etym. at D iii.93= Vism 419 is "dhammena pare rañjet" ti r!j!" i. e. he gladdens others
with his righteousness. -- At the latter passage the origin of kingly government is given as the third stage in
the constitution of a people, the 2 preceding being mah! -- sammata (general consent) and khattiya (the
land -- aristocrats). -- Cases. We find 3 systems of cases for the original Sk. forms, viz. the contracted, the
diaeretic and (in the pl.) a new formation with -- ( -- . Thus gen. & dat. sg. rañño [Sk. r!jña1] Vin iii.107;
iv.157; J ii.378; iii.5; Vv 744; and r!jino Sn 299, 415; Th 2, 463; J iv.495; Mhvs 2, 14; instr. sg. raññ! Vin
iii.43; J v.444; DhA i.164; PvA 22; VbhA 106; and r!jin! [Sk. rajña] Mhvs 6, 2; acc. sg. r!j!na' Vin
iv.157; loc. raññe PvA 76; voc. r!ja Sn 422, 423. pl. nom. r!j!no A i.68; gen. dat. rañña' [Sk. r!jña'] D
ii.87; Mhvs 18, 32; and r!j(na' Vin i.228; Ud 11; J ii.104; iii.487; SnA 484; PvA 101, 133; instr. raññ!hi A
i.279 r!j(hi Ud 41; M ii.120; J i.179; iii.45; Mhvs 5, 80; 8, 21; and r!jubhi D ii.258. Cp. Geiger, P.Gr. §
921. -- 1. r!j! is a term of sovereignship. The term r!j! as used in Buddhist India does not admit of a
uniform interpretation and translation. It is primarily an appellative (or title) of a khattiya, and often the two
are used promiscuously. Besides, it has a far wider sphere of meaning than we convey by any trsln like
"king" or even "sovereign," or "prince." We find it used as a designation of "king" in the sense of an elected
or successory (crowned) monarch, but also in the meaning of a distinguished nobleman, or a local chieftain,
or a prince with var. attributes characterizing his position according to special functions. From this we get
the foll. scheme: (a) [based on mythological views: the king as representing the deity, cp. deva= king. Note
that r!j! never takes the place of deva in the meaning king, but that mah!r!ja is used in voc. equivalent to
deva] a world -- king, over -- lord, a so -- called cakkavatti r!j!. This is an office (as "Universal King")
peculiar to the Mah!purisa or the (mythol.) "Great Man," who may become either the Saviour of men in the
religious sense, a Samm! -- sambuddha, or a just Ruler of the earth in the worldly sense, a King of