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tamas

támas n. darkness, gloom (also pl.), [RV.] (°maḥ práṇīta, ‘led into darkness’, deprived of the eye's light or sight, [i, 117, 17]) &c.

the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, [Mn. iv], [viii f.]; [VP. ii, 6, 4]; [MārkP. xii, 10]

the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., [L.]), [R.]; [VarBṛS. v, 44]; [VarBṛ. ii]; [VarYogay.]; [Sūryas.]

mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā, [MBh. xiv, 1019]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, [L.]; sorrow, [Kir. iii]; see guṇa & cf. [RTL. p. 45]] [Mn. xii, 24 f.] and [38]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.), [RV. v, 31, 9]; [R. ii]; [Śak.]; [Rājat. v, 144]

N. of a son (of Śravas, [MBh. xiii, 2002]; of Dakṣa, [i], Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, [VP. iv, 12, 2])

[cf. timira; Lat. temere &c.]

támas , °sá, &c. See col. 1.