Mahasantapana, Mahāsāntapana: 3 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāsāntapana (महासान्तपन).—n.
(-naṃ) A sort of penance; subsisting for six successive days, respectively, on cow’s urine, cowdung, milk, curds, Ghee, and water in which Kusa grass has been boiled, and fasting on the seventh day: instead of one day some authorities assign a period of three days to each, considering the first as the common Santapana penance; others omit the two last periods, making it last fifteen days. E. mahā great, sāntapana a penance.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāsāntapana (महासान्तपन).—n. a severer sort of penance.
Mahāsāntapana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahā and sāntapana (सान्तपन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāsantāpana (महासन्तापन):—[mahā-santāpana] (naṃ) 1. n. A penance of abstinence for six days.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Maha, Santapana.
Full-text: Makacantapanam, Atisantapana, Abhojana.
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