tamas | तमस् | tamas
ta/mas | त/मस् | n. darkness, gloom (also pl.), RV. (˚maḥ pra/ṛīta | ˚मः प्र/ऋईत |, ‘led into darkness’, deprived of the eye's light or sight, i, 117, 17) &c.
the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, Mn. iv, viii f.; VP. ii, 6, 4; MārkP. xii, 10
the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., L.), R.; VarBṛS. v, 44; VarBṛ. ii; VarYogay.; Sūryas.
mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā | अ-विद्या |, MBh. xiv, 1019; Sāṃkhyak. &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, L.; sorrow, Kir. iii; see guṛa | गुऋअ | & cf. RTL. p. 45] Mn. xii, 24 f. and 38; Sāṃkhyak. &c.), RV. v, 31, 9; R. ii; Śak.; Rājat. v, 144
N. of a son (of Śravas, MBh. xiii, 2002; of Dakṣa, i, Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, VP. iv, 12, 2)
tamas | तमस् | [cf. timira | तिमिर |; Lat. temere &c.]
ta/mas | त/मस् | , ˚sa/ | ˚स/ |, &c. See col. 1.
the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, Mn. iv, viii f.; VP. ii, 6, 4; MārkP. xii, 10
the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., L.), R.; VarBṛS. v, 44; VarBṛ. ii; VarYogay.; Sūryas.
mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā | अ-विद्या |, MBh. xiv, 1019; Sāṃkhyak. &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, L.; sorrow, Kir. iii; see guṛa | गुऋअ | & cf. RTL. p. 45] Mn. xii, 24 f. and 38; Sāṃkhyak. &c.), RV. v, 31, 9; R. ii; Śak.; Rājat. v, 144
N. of a son (of Śravas, MBh. xiii, 2002; of Dakṣa, i, Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, VP. iv, 12, 2)
tamas | तमस् | [cf. timira | तिमिर |; Lat. temere &c.]
ta/mas | त/मस् | , ˚sa/ | ˚स/ |, &c. See col. 1.