Mahasamtapana, Maha-samtapana, Mahāsāṃtapana: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMahāsāṃtapana (महासांतपन).—a kind of very rigid penance; see Manusmṛti 11. 218.
Derivable forms: mahāsāṃtapanaḥ (महासांतपनः).
Mahāsāṃtapana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahā and sāṃtapana (सांतपन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāsāṃtapana (महासांतपन):—[=mahā-sāṃtapana] [from mahā > mah] m. ‘greatly tormenting’, a kind of severe penance (viz. subsisting for 6 successive days respectively on cow’s urine, cow-dung, milk, curds, ghee and water in which Kuśa grass has been boiled, and fasting on the 7th; or instead of 1 day some authorities assign a period of 3 days to each penance, considering the first kind as the common Sāṃtapana [Manu-smṛti xi, 212]; others omit the 6th and 7th penance, making the whole last 15 days), [Yājñavalkya]
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