tejas (n)
Meanings
- (in Sāṃkhya phil.) = rajas (passion)
- (opposed to kṣamā) impatience
- a mystical name of the letter r
- a venerable or dignified person
- ardour
- authority
- beauty
- brilliance
- clearness of the eyes
- dignity
- efficacy
- energetic opposition
- essence
- fierceness
- fiery energy
- fire
- fresh butter
- glare
- glory
- glow
- gold
- light
- majesty
- marrow
- person of consequence
- point or top of a flame or ray
- semen virile
- spirit
- spiritual or moral or magical power or influence
- splendour
- the bile
- the brain
- the bright appearance of the human body (in health)
- the heating and strengthening faculty of the human frame seated in the bile
- the sharp edge (of a knife etc.)
- vital power
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