bhayānaka

Dictionary meanings for bhayānaka from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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bhayānaka

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. [bibhetyasmāt, bhī-ānak; Uṇ. 3. 82] Fearful, horrible, terrible, frightful; kimataḥ paraṃ bhayānakaṃ syāt U. 2; Śi. 17. 20; Bg. 11. 27. kaḥ 1 A tiger.

2 N. of Rāhu.

3 The sentiment of terror, one of the eight or nine sentiments in poetry; see under rasa. kaṃ Terror, fear.

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