a. [raso'styasya ṭhan] 1 Sa- voury, sapid, tasteful.

2 Graceful, elegant, beautiful.

3 Impassioned.

4 Apprehending flavour or excel- lence, possessed of taste, appre- ciative, discriminating; tad vṛttaṃ pra- vadaṃti kāvyarasikāḥ śārdūlavikrīḍitaṃ Śrut. 40.

5 Finding pleasure or taking delight in, delighting in, de- voted to (usually in comp.); iyaṃ mālatī bhagavatā sadṛśasaṃyogarasikena vedha- sā manmathena...