N. of a brother of Rāvaṇa (his other brothers were Kubera [by a different mother] and Kumbha-karṇa; both Rāvaṇa and Vibhīṣaṇa are said to have propitiated Brahmā by their penances, so that the god granted them both boons, and the boon chosen by V° was that he should never, even in the greatest calamity, stoop to any mean action; hence he is represented in the Rāmāyaṇa as endeavouring to counteract the malice of his brother Rāvaṇa, in consequence of which he was so ill-treated by him that, leaving Laṅkā, he joined Rāma, by whom, after the death of Rāvaṇa, V° was placed on the throne of Laṅkā), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.] &c.
of two kings of Kaśmīra (the sons of Go-narda and Rāvaṇa), [Rājat. i, 192] &c. (in later times V° appears to have been used as a general N. of the kings of Laṅkā)
N. of an author, [Cat.]
vi-bhī́ṣaṇa n. the act or a means of terrifying, terror, intimidation, [MBh.]