Definition of Bairava

1. Noun. Epithet of Siva. "The terrible Bairava"

Generic synonyms: Shiva, Siva

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bairava

Baic
Baikal
Baikal teal
Baikal teals
Baikonur
Bailey
Bailey bridge
Bailey bridges
Baileys
Baillarger's bands
Baillarger's lines
Bailliart's ophthalmodynamometer
Bainbridge reflex
Baiomys
Baiomys taylori
Bairava
Baird's tapir
Baird's tapirs
Bairdiella
Bairdiella chrysoura
Bairiki
Baisakh
Baisakhi
Baja
Baja California
Baja California Sur
Baja Midnight
Bajan
Bajans
Bajau

Literary usage of Bairava

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... a name of Bhairava, it means a thunder-bolt frame from Bajra, a thunder bolt and anua the body. See Bhairava. bairava. ..."

2. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"... BANGALORE TAL UQ consisted of three lines of defence and some outworks on the north and east faces, built the temple of bairava at the summit, ..."

3. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras by Archaeological Survey of India (1903)
"Agraharam Lying on a mound of heaped up bricks, are images of Ganesa, bairava and an inscribed jam. etone. The existence of these -would seem to imply that ..."

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