tāmasa तामस – tamasic

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tāmasa ·f. ī dark, belonging to ignorance (ph.); N. of the fourth Manu.

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tāmasa tāmasa, as, ī, am (fr. tamas), dark, of or belonging to darkness; affected by or apper- taining to the third quality or that of darkness (vice, ignorance, &c.); ignorant, vicious, malignant; relating to Manu Tāmasa; (as), m. a malignant or mis- chievous person, a villain, an incendiary; a snake; an owl; N. of the fourth Manu; N. of one of the attendants of Śiva; (ī), f. night; sleep; an epithet of Durgā; N. of a river, = jaṭāmāṃsī (in this sense a wrong reading for tāpasī); (am), n. darkness [cf. andha-tāmasa]; tāmasī tanūs, the form as- sumed by the Deity for the destruction of the world; tāmasī śaktis, the faculty of Tamas.

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1. tāmasa (von tamas) 1〉 adj. f. ī a〉 finster: rātri AK. 1,1,3,5. — b〉 zum Guṇa tamas, zur Finsterniss, zum Irrthum, zur Unwissenheit in Beziehung stehend M. 12,33. M. 12,35. M. 12,40. M. 12,42. fgg. BHAG. 7,12. BHAG. 14,18. BHAG. 17,2. MBH. 14,1017. SĀṂKHYAK. 23. SĀṂKHYAK. 25. TATTVAS. 7. SUŚR. 1,130,4. SUŚR. 1,192,9. SUŚR. 1,312,21. SUŚR. 1,329,14. MĀLAV. 1. BHĀG. P. 2,5,24. PRAB. 50,1. — 2〉 m. a〉 Bösewicht. — b〉 Schlange H. an. 3,748. MED. s. 24. — c〉 Eule (Nachtvogel) RĀJAN._im_ŚKDR. — d〉 N. pr. des 4 ten Manu M. 1,62. HARIV. 409. HARIV. 427. fgg. VP. 262. BHĀG. P. 5,1,28. BHĀG. P. 8,1,27. — e〉 N. pr. eines Wesens im Gefolge von Śiva VYĀḌI_zu_H. 210; vgl. HARIV. LANGL. I, 513. — 3〉 f. ī a〉 Nacht TRIK. 3,3,445. H. ś. 18. H. an. MED. RĀJA-TAR. 1,137 (?). — b〉 Schlaf H. ś. 88. — c〉 Bein. der Durgā TRIK. 1,1,54. TRIK. 3,3,445. H. ś. 47. H. an. MED. — d〉 N. pr. eines Flusses MBH. 6,339. VP. 184. — e〉 = jaṭāmāṃsī RĀJAN._im_ŚKDR. Fehlerhaft für tāpasī. — 4〉 n. Finsterniss, s. andha˚.

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2. tāmasa (von 1. tāmasa 2,d) adj. zum Manu Tāmasa in Beziehung stehend: antara BHĀG. P. 8,1,28.

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1. tāmasa 2〉d〉 N. pr. eines Mannes, pl. SAṂSK. K. 184,a,2. — 3〉a〉 RĀJA-TAR. 1,137 wird wohl tāmasyaḥ (adj.) kṛttikāḥ zu lesen sein.

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tāmasa — 1〉 Adj. (f. ī) — a〉 finster. — b〉 zum Guṇa Tamas —, zum Irrthum —, zur Unwissenheit in näherer Beziehung stehend. — c〉 zum Manu Tāmasa in Beziehung stehend. — 2〉 m. — a〉 *Bösewicht. — b〉 *Schlange. — c〉 *Eule RĀJAN. 19,91. — d〉 ein best. Krankheitsdämon HARIV. 9562. — e〉 N. pr. — α〉 des 4ten Manu. — β〉 *eines Wesens im Gefolge Śivaʼs. — γ〉 eines Mannes. Pl. sein Geschlecht. — 3〉 f. ī — a〉 *Nacht. — b〉 *Schlaf. — c〉 *Nardostachys jatamansi; richtig tāpasī. — d〉 [Page3-022-a] *Bein. der Durgā. — e〉 N. pr. eines Flusses. — 4〉 *n. Finsterniss in *andha˚.

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tāmasa a. (sī f.) [tamo'styasya aṇ] 1 Dark, consisting of darkness; Māl. 9. 52; U. 5. 12. 2 ([Page 0535-b]) Affected by or relating to tamas or the quality of darkness (the third of the three qualities of nature); Bg. 7. 12, Bg. 17. 2; M. 1. 1; Ms. 12. 33-34. 3 Ignorant. 4 Vicious. — saḥ 1 A malignant person, an incendiary, a villain. 2 A snake. 3 An owl. 4 N. of a son of Rāhu. — saṃ Darkness. — sī 1 Night, a dark night. 2 Sleep. 3 An epithet of Durgā.

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tāmasa f. ī finster, Dunkelheits-; Unwissenheits- (ph.).

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tāmasa tāmasa a. (tamas) ténébreux; de la nature du tamas. — S. m. homme ténébreux, pervers. Serpent; chouette. — S. f. tāmasī la nuit. Durgā.