masculine · ratha 1.1 · ratha 2.1
carriage
a carriage; chariot
Ratha 1 [Vedic ratha, Avesta raϸa, Latin rota wheel, rotundus ("rotund" and round), Old-Irish roth = Old High German rad wheel, Lithuanian ra~tas the same] a two-wheeled carriage, chariot (for riding, driving or fighting S I 33 (ethically); A IV 191 (horse and cart; different parts of a ratha); M I 396; Snp 300, 654; Vism 593 (in its compounds of akkha, cakka, pañjara, īsā etc.); Ja III 239 (passaddha° carriage slowing up); Thig 229 (caturassaṃ rathaṃ, i.e. a Vimāna); Mhv 35, 42 (goṇā rathe yuttā); Vv-a 78 (500), 104, 267 (= Vimāna), Pv-a 74. — assatarī° a chariot drawn by a she-mule Vv 20 8 = 43 8 ; Pv I 11 1 ; Ja VI 355. — phussa-ratha state carriage Ja III 238; VI 30 f. See under phussa 3 . — On ratha in similes see JPTS 1907, 127; -atthara (rath'-atthara) a rug for a chariot D I 7; Vin I 192; II 163; -anīka array of chariots Vin IV 108; -īsā carriage pole A IV 191; -ūpatthara chariot or carriage cover D I 103; Sv I 273; -esabha (ratha + r̥ṣabha, Sanskrit rathārṣabha) lord of charioteers. Ratha here in meaning of "charioteer"; Childers sees rathin in this compound; Trenckner, "Notes" 59, suggests distortion from rathe śubha. Dhammapāla at Pv-a 163 clearly under- {565} stands it as ratha- = charioteer explaining "rathesu usabha-sadiso mahā-ratho ti attho"; as does Buddhaghosa at Pj II 321 (on Snp 303): "mahā-rathesu khattiyesu akampiyaṭṭhena usabha-sadiso." — Snp 303-308, 552; Pv II 13 1 ; Mhv 5, 246; 15, 11; 29, 12; -kāra carriage builder, chariot-maker, considered as a class of very low social standing, rebirth in which is a punishment (cf. Fick, Soziale Gliederung pages 56, 207, 209 f. ) S I 93; Vin IV 9 (as term of abuse, enumerated with other low grades: caṇḍāla veṇa nesāda r. pukkusa), 12 (°jāti); M II 152, 183 f.; as kārin at Pv III 1 13 (explained as cammakārin Pv-a 175). As name of place name of one of the 7 Great Lakes in the Himālayas (Rathakāradaha), e.g. at Vism 416; Pj II 407; -cakka wheel of a chariot or carriage Vism 238 (in simile, concerning its circumference); Pv-a 65; -pañjara the body (literal "cage" or "frame") of a carriage Vv 83 1 (= rathūpattha Vv-a 326); Ja II 172; IV 60; Dhp-a I 28; -yuga a {507} chariot yoke Ja VI 42; -reṇu "chariot-dust," a very minute quantity (as a measure), a mite. Childers compares Sanskrit trasareṇu a mote of dust, atom. It is said to consist of 36 tajjāri's, and 36 ratha-reṇu's are equal to one likkhā: Vibh-a 343; -vinīta "led by a chariot," a chariot-drive (Neumann, M.S. "Eilpost"), name of the 24th Suttanta of Majjhima (M I 145 f. ), quoted at Vism 93, 671 and Pj II 446; -sālā chariot shed Dhp-a III 121. Ratha 2 [from ram, cf. Sanskrit ratha] pleasure, joy, delight: see mano°.
【陽】 馬車，二輪戰車。~kāra,【陽】 造車者，木匠。~ṅga,【中】 馬車的一部份。~gutti,【陰】 車甲（馬車的防衛物）。~cakka,【中】 車輪。~pañjara,【陽】 車身。~yuga,【中】 車軛。~reṇu,【陽】 塵埃。~ācariya,【陽】 戰車的禦者，趕車人。~aṇīka,【中】 一隊戰車。~āroha,【陽】 二輪戰車的戰士。
(masc, masc) chariot; coach; carriage carriage, chariot
(masc, masc, in comps, from ramati) pleasure; joy; delight Construction: √ram + tha
(masc, masc) charioteering carriage, chariot