The Sanskrit term Raśmirāja can be transliterated into English as Rasmiraja or Rashmiraja, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Raśmirāja (रश्मिराज) is the name of a Buddha of the Raśmipatākā universe (where Maudgalyāyana stopped while finding out the range of the Buddha’s voice), according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 15).—Accordingly, “One day Maudgalyāyana had this thought: ‘I would like to know the range of the Buddha’s voice’. Then, by virtue of his base of miraculous powers (ṛddhipāda), he passed through innumerable thousands of millions of Buddha-universes (lokadhātu) and then he stopped; he still heard the voice of the Buddha as if he were quite close. In the universe where he had stopped, a Buddha was in the process of dining with his great assembly. In that land, the people were large, and Maudgalyāyana [coming from the Sahā universe where people are small] was standing in a begging bowl (pātra). [...]”.

Note: According to T 310 and T 312 (l.c.), the universe where Maudgalyāyana stopped was called Kouang ming fan (Raśmipatākā, ‘Banner of Rays’); it was led by the Buddha Kouang ming wang (Raśmirāja).

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Raśmirāja (रश्मिराज):—[=raśmi-rāja] [from raśmi] m. ‘ray-lord’, Name of a man, [Buddhist literature] (cf. raśmi-pati).

[Sanskrit to German]

Rashmiraja in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Rashmi, Raja.

Ends with: Vimalaprabhanantarashmiraja, Vipulamahajnanarashmiraja.

Full-text: Rashmipataka.

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