Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 An uproar, a din, confused noise.
2 A sound in general.
3 Speech.
4 A kind of dance prac- tised by Kṛṣṇa and the cowherds but particularly the gopis or cow- herdesses of Vṛndāvana; utsṛjya rāse rasaṃ gacchaṃtīṃ Ve. 1. 2; rāse harimiha vihitavilāsaṃ smarati mano mama kṛtaparihā- saṃ Gīt. 2; also Gīt. 1.
5 A chain. Comp. īśvarī N. of Rādhā. krīḍā, maṃḍalaṃ a sportive dance, the circular dance of...
