Sanskrit

Adjective

भीषण • ‎(bhīṣaṇa)

1. terrifying, frightening, formidable, horrible.

Noun

भीषण • ‎(bhīṣaṇa) n

1. The act of terrifying or frightening.

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0758