mfn. (fr. tam° and támisrā, g. jyotsnādi) (with pakṣa) or m. the dark half of the month, [Lāṭy. ix]; [Gobh. iii f.]; [MBh. iii, 11813]
m. ‘nightwalker’, a Rākṣasa, [Ragh. xv, 2]
(in Sāṃkhya phil.) indignation, anger (one of the 5 forms of A-vidyā), [MBh. xiv, 1019]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Tattvas.]; [BhP. iii] (also n.), [MārkP. iiil]
N. of a hell, [Mn. iv], [xii]; [Yājñ. iii, 222]; [BhP. iii], [v]; [MārkP.]
cf. andha-.