بھیرو

भैरव bhairav (from bhīru), adj. & s.m. Formidable, awful, horrible, terrible, terriffic, horrid, miserable;—terror, horror; the property of exciting terror, terribleness, formidableness, horribleness, dreadfulness; abhorrence, hatred; a form of Śiva (especially an inferior manifestation of that deity;—eight forms are enumerated, all of which allude to terrific properties of mind or body);—name of a river;—name of a rāg or musical mode calculated to excite emotions of terror (it is sung at early dawn in autumn, and is represented in pictures by Mahādeo with the Ganges flowing from the hair of his head and this rāg or musical deity issuing from his mouth).