— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
विभीषणvibhīṣaṇa
विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa) is a Sanskrit word meaning terrifying, fearful, horrible, bullying or blustering, miscarriage, abortion, amphidonax Karka, a brother of Ravana, two kings of Kashmir. Its 21 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them Other Named Individuals/Entities, Polysemous Entries (Adjective, Noun, Proper Noun), Miscellaneous Denotations (Plant, Muhūrta, Condition).
- Etymology
- E. वि, भी to fear, युच् aff. षुक् augment
- Definitions
- 21
Meanings by context
Other Named Individuals/Entities
6 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
वि-भीषणा (vi-bhīṣaṇā) f. N. of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda, MBh. [ID=198379]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Vibhīṣaṇa1, a Yakṣa. § 269 (Vaiśravaṇasabhāv.): II,
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
Vibhīṣaṇa (I) — one of Bhaṇḍa's eight councillors. Br. IV. 12. 12. [ID=12991]
— The Purana Index
Polysemous Entries (Adjective, Noun, Proper Noun)
6 definitions
वि (vi)भी (bhī)षण (vibhīṣaṇa) mfn. (-णः (-ṇaḥ)-णा-णं (-ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ)) Fearful, formidable, terrific, horrible. nf. (-णं-णा (-ṇaṃ-ṇā)) The property of exciting fear. m. (-णः (-ṇaḥ)) The brother of RĀVAṆA.
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
वि-भीषण (vi-bhīṣaṇa) (णः-णा-णं) ((ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ)) 1. n. f. The property of exciting fear. m. Rāva- na's brother. a. Fearful, terrific. [ID=35088]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa)
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa) vibhīṣaṇa, i. e. vi-bhī,
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa) a. terrifying, horrible. m. N. of a Rākṣasa etc.; n. frightening, terror. [ID=29840]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Vi-bhīṣaṇa, as, ā or ī, am, terrifying, intimi- dating, terrific, fearful, terrible, formidable, horrible; bullying or blustering (as language); (am, ā), n. f. the act of terrifying, the property of exciting fear, a means of terrifying, terror; (as), m., N. of a brother of Rāvaṇa, (his other brothers were Kuvera [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 Vibhīṣaṇa was that he should never, even in the greatest cala- mity, stoop to any mean or wicked action; hence he is represented in the Rāmāyaṇa as opposing and endeavouring to counteract the malice of his brother Rāvaṇa, in consequence of which he was so ill- treated and insulted by Rāvaṇa that, leaving Laṅkā, he joined the side of Rāma, by whom, after the death of Rāvaṇa, Vibhīṣaṇa was placed on the throne of Laṅkā); N. of several kings, (in later times Vibhīṣaṇa appears to have been used as a general name of the kings of Laṅkā.) —Vibhīṣaṇa- vākya, am, n. ‘speech of Vibhīṣaṇa,’ N. of several chapters in the Sundara-kāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa. —Vibhīṣaṇābhiṣeka (°ṇa-abh°), as, m. ‘inau- guration of Vibhīṣaṇa,’ N. of the ninety-first chapter of the Sundara-kāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa (according to one recension). [ID=43463]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)
Miscellaneous Denotations (Plant, Muhūrta, Condition)
3 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Vibhīṣaṇa, brother of Rāvaṇa
3 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
[Footnote: 1) Bhā. IV. 1. 37; IX. 10. 16, 29 and 43.]
[Footnote: 2) Ib. II. 7. 45; XI. 12. 5; Br. III. 34. 39.]
[Footnote: 3) Ib. III. 8. 47.]
[Footnote: 4) Vi. IV. 4. 99.]
[ID=12992]
— The Purana Index
Noun: Act/Property of Terrifying
2 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Adjective: Terrifying / Fearful
1 definition
वि-भीषण (vi-bhīṣaṇa) mf(आ (ā))n. terrifying, fearful, horrible, RV. &c. &c. [ID=198372]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
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Definitions on this page come from 9 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.