रौक्म

Vṛddhi derivative of रुक्म n (rukma, “gold”, literally “shining; bright; radiant”), from the root रुच् (ruc, “to shine”).

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɑwk.mɐ/

रौक्म • (raukma) stem

1. (Classical Sanskrit) golden (made of, adorned with, or of the colour of gold)
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.1.30:

     उग्रसेनसुतः कंसः स्वसुः प्रियचिकीर्षया। रश्मीन् हयानां जग्राह रौक्‍मै रथशतैर्वृतः॥

     ugrasenasutaḥ kaṃsaḥ svasuḥ priyacikīrṣayā. raśmīn hayānāṃ jagrāha rauk‍mai rathaśatairvṛtaḥ.

     Kaṃsa, the son of King Ugrasena, in order to please his sister Devakī on the occasion of her marriage, took charge of the reins of the horses and became the chariot driver. He was surrounded by hundreds of golden chariots.

• Monier Williams (1899) “रौक्म”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 890.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “raukma”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “रौक्म”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1351
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “रौक्म”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 259