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- Sanskrit · derived fromरुद्राक्ष“Rudra's eyes”
- English todayrudraksha
From Sanskrit रुद्राक्ष (rudrākṣa, “Rudra's eyes”), from रुद्र (Rudra, “Rudra, a Rigvedic deity of wind and storm”), and अक्ष (ákṣa, “eye”), variant form of अक्षि (ákṣi).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.