a. [bhī-ṇic-suk-apādāne mak] Terrible, dreadful, frightful, fearful. ṣmaḥ 1 The sentiment of terror (in rhetoric), see bhayānaka.

2 A demon, an imp, a fiend, goblin.

3 An epi- thet of Śiva.

4 N. of the son of Śantanu by Gaṅgā. [He was the youngest of the eight sons of Śantanu by Gaṅgā; but all the others having died, he remained the sole heir to the throne after his father. On one occasion while Śantanu was...