rasika a. [ raso'styasya Wan ] 1 Savoury, sapid, tasteful. 2 Graceful, elegant, beautiful. 3 Impassioned. 4 Apprehending flavour or excellence, possessed of taste, appreciative, discriminating; tad vfttaM pravadaMti kAvyarasikAH SArdUlavikrIqitaM Śrut. 40. 5 Finding pleasure or taking delight in, delighting in, devoted to (usually in comp. ); iyaM mAlatI BagavatA sadfSasaMyogarasikena veDasA manmaTena mayA ca tuByaM dIyate Māl. 6 ; so kAmarasikaH Bh. 3. 112 ; paropakArarasikasya Mk. 6. 19. 6 Humourous, witty. 7 Fanciful. 8 Lustful. — kaH 1 A man of taste or feeling, an appreciator of excellence or beauty; cf. arasika . 2 A libertine. 3 An elephant. 4 A horse. 5 The Sārasa bird. — kA 1 The juice of sugarcane, molasses. 2 The tongue. 3 A woman's girdle; see rasAlA also.