tamas

But I had said to Tamas—'No, do not try to fight them in the open, for there they will certainly kill you.'

The widow loaded the guns, while Tamas sat quietly in an arm-chair.

(By the respective influence of the three qualities of sattwa, rajas and tamas, Swaha had three sons).

Thus "sight," or the power of seeing, is a modification of the quality of sattva unobstructed by rajas and tamas.

He was the only son of the majoresco, Tamas Bardy, and resembled him much in form and feature.