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He lived in the first half of the eighteenth century and taught several pupils at Varanasi.

रामचन्द्रशेष See रामचन्द्र (1).

रामचन्द्रसरस्वती pupil of वासुदेवेन्द्रसरस्वती of the sixteenth century who has written a gloss named विवरण on the Mahabhasyapradipa of Kaiyata.

रामतर्कवागीश a learned grammarian who held the titles महामहोपाध्याय and भट्टाचार्य, He was an advocate of the Mugdhabodha School and wrote commentaries on (1) the Mugdha- bodha, (2) the Kavikalpadruma, (3) the Amarakosa and (4) the Unadi sutras. He also wrote a short gloss on case-relations, his treatise on the subject being named कारकटिप्पणी,

रामदास (चक्रवर्ती ) a follower of the Katantra school of grammar who wrote (l) चन्द्रिका, a commentary on Katantraparisista and ( 2 ) कातन्त्रव्याख्यासार

रामनाथ ( चक्रवर्तीं ) who wrote short glosses on the Katantra and the Kalpa Vyakaranas.

रामनाथ ( चोबे ) a grammarian of the nineteenth century who wrote (l) शब्देन्दुशेखरटीका, (2) वैयाकरणभूषणटीका and (3) वैयाकरणसिद्धान्तमञ्जूषाटीका.

रामनाथ ( विद्यावाचस्पति ) a Sanskrit scholar of the 17th century who studied Vyakarana,. Dharma, Alamkara and other Sastras and wrote a grammar work कातन्त्ररहस्य, besides many books on other Sastras.

रामनारायण writer of a commentary on the Sarasvataprakriya.

रामभदृ writer of a commentary on the Prakriyakaumudi.

रामभद्र दीक्षित son of यज्ञराम दीक्षित, a grammarian of Tanjore of the seventeenth century who wrote a

commentary on the Paribhasavrtti of Siradeva named परिभाषावृत्तिव्याख्या. He has also written the ' life of Patanjali' ( पतञ्जलिचरित ) and many miscellaneous works, such as उणादिमणिदीपिका and others.

रामराम a grammarian who has written a commentary on the Kavikalpa- druma of Bopadeva.

रामशार्मा the same as रामतर्कवागीश. See रामतर्कवागीश.

रामसिंहृवर्मा possibly the same king of Sringaberapura who patronised Nagesabhatta. He is said to have written some Small comments on the Ramayana and a small gram- mar work named धातुरत्नमञ्जरी.

रामानन्द् a grammarian of the seven- teenth century who wrote a com- mentary on Bopadeva's Mugdha- bodha. He was possibly the same as Ramarama (see above) and Ramānandatirtha who wrote the Katantrasamgraha, although diffe- rent from the well-known रामानन्द- तीर्थ of the sixteenth century who was a sanyasin and who wrote many philosophical and religious booklets.

रामालंकार possibly the same as रामराम (see above) who wrote Dhatudi- pika, a commentary on the Kavi- kalpadruma of Bopadeva.

रामाश्रम a grammarian of the seven- teenth century who wrote a com- mentary named Siddhantacandrika on the Sarasvata Vyakarana.

रामेश्वर a grammarian who wrote a small compendium on grammar named शुद्धाशुबोध.

राशि usually used in the sense of a collection or a heap or a lunar constellation; the word is often used after the word वर्ण when it means the traditional collection of