bhraṃś or (sometimes written bhraṃs; cf. √ bhṛś) cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 17]) bhraṃśate (once in [AV.] P. °ti) cl. 4. P. ([xxvi, 116]; cf. √ bhṛś) bhraśyati (ep. also Ā. °te pf. babhraṃśa, °śe Gr.; aor. Subj. bhraśat, [RV.]; abhraṃśiṣṭa Gr.; fut. bhraṃśiṣyati, °te; bhraṃśitā, [ib.]; ind.p. bhraṃśitvā and bhraṣṭvā, [ib.]), to fall, drop, fall down or out or in pieces, [AitBr.] &c. &c.; to strike against (loc.), [MBh.]; to rebound from (abl.), [ib.]; to fall (fig.), decline, decay, fail, disappear, vanish, be ruined or lost, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to be separated from or deprived of, lose (abl.), [TS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to slip or escape from (gen.), [Kād.]; to swerve or deviate from, abandon (abl.), [Ragh.] : Caus. bhraṃśayati (or bhrāśayati; cf. bhrā́śya and ni-√ bhraṃś; aor. ababhraṃśat; Pass. bhraṃśyate), to cause to fall (lit. and fig.), throw down, overthrow, [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to disappear or be lost destroy, [MBh.]; [R.]; to cause to escape from (abl.), [Ratnāv.]; to cause to deviate from (abl.), [BhP.]; to deprive any one (acc.) of (abl.; e.g. upavāsāt or vratāt, ‘of the reward for fasting or performing any observance’), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.: Desid. bibhraṃśiṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. bābhraśyate, °bhraṣṭi; banībhraśyate or °bhraṃśyate, [ib.]