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tapasतपस्tápas n. warmth, heat (pañca tapāṃsi, the 5 fires to which a devotee exposes himself in the hot season, viz. 4 fires lighted in the four quarters and the sun burning from above, [Mn. vi, 23]; [R.]; [BhP. iv]; [BrahmaP.]; cf. [Ragh. xiii, 41]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
pain, suffering, [RV. vii, 82, 7]
religious austerity, bodily mortification, penance, severe meditation, special observance (e.g. ‘sacred learning’ with Brāhmans, ‘protection of subjects’ with Kṣatriyas, ‘giving alms to Brāhmans’ with Vaiśyas, ‘service’ with Śūdras, and ‘feeding upon herbs and roots’ with Ṛṣis, [Mn. xi, 236]), [RV. ix, 113, 2]
[x] (personified, [83, 2 f.] & [101, 1], ‘father of Manyu’, [RAnukr.]), [AV.] &c.
(m., [L.]) N. of a month intervening between winter and spring, [VS.]; [TS. i]; [ŚBr. iv]; [Suśr.]; [Pāṇ. iv, 4, 128], Vārtt. 2, [Pat.]; [Śiś. vi, 63]
the hot season, [L.], Sch.
= °po-loka, [Vedāntas. 120]
the 9th lunar mansion (dharma), [VarBṛ. i, 19]; [ix, 1] and [4]
N. of a Kalpa period, [VāyuP. i, 21, 27.]
tapasaतपसm. = °po-rāja, [Uṇ. iii], Sch.
a bird, [ib.]
tapasyāतपस्या(ā), f. (fr. 1. tapasya) id., [Hcar.]
tapasyaतपस्यNom. °syati ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 15]) to undergo religious austerities, [ŚBr. xiv, 6, 8, 10] (táp°), [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii] (Ā. cf. 2. ), [R.] &c.
tapasyà mf(A)n. (fr. tápas) produced by heat, [KātyŚr. xxv]
belonging to austerity, [Baudh. ii, 5, 1]
tapasyà m. ([Pāṇ. iv, 4, 128]) the second month of the season intervening between winter and spring (= phālguna), [VS.]; [TS. i]; [ŚBr. iv]; [Car. viii, 6]; [Suśr. i]
Arjuna (= phālguna), [L.]
N. of a son of Manu Tāmasa, [Hariv. 428]
tapasyà n. the flower of Jasminum multiflorum or pubescens, [L.]
devout austerity (?, °sye taken as 1. sg. Ā. of 1. by, [Nīlak.]), [MBh. xiii, 10, 13]
tapasvatतपस्वत्tápas—vat (táp°), mfn. burning, hot, [RV. vi, 5, 4]; [AV. v, 2, 8]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. iii, 19, 15]
tápas—vat = °po-v°, [RV. x, 154, 4 f.]
tapasvinतपस्विन्tapas—vín mfn. ([Pāṇ. v, 2, 102]) distressed, wretched, poor, miserable, [TS. v, 3, 3, 4] (compar. -ví-tara), [R. ii f.]; [Śak.]; [Mālav.]; [BhP.]; [Sāh.]
practising austerities, (m.) an ascetic, [AV. xiii, 2, 25]; [Kāṭh. xx] (compar.), [xxiii] (superl. -vi-tama), [ŚBr.] (compar. [ii]) &c.
tapas—vín m. a pauper, [W.]
= °paḥkara, [L.]
a kind of Karañja tree, [L.]
Nārada, [L.]
N. of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [Hariv. 71]
of a Ṛṣi of the 12th Manv-antara, 482 [BhP. viii, 13, 29]; [VP.]
tapasīvanतपसीवन्mf(varI)n. causing pain (?), [Kāṭh.]
tapaspatiतपस्पतिtápas—pati (táp°), m. the lord of austerities, [VS. v, 6] and [40]; [BhP. iv, 24, 14.]
tapastanuतपस्तनुtapas—tanu mfn. = °paḥ-kṛśa, [AitĀr. v, 3, 2, 1.]
having penance as a body, [JaimUp.]
tapasvinīतपस्विनीtápas—vinī f. a female devotee, poor wretched woman, [Nal.]; [R. iii, 2, 7]; [Śak.]; [Daś.]
Nardostachys Jaṭā-māṃsī, [L.]
Helleborus niger, [L.]
= mahāśrāvaṇikā, [Bhpr.]
tapasvitāतपस्विताtapasvi—tā f. devout austerity, [MBh. xiii, 2896]; [Śatr.]
tapastīrthaतपस्तीर्थtapas—tīrtha n. N. of a Tīrtha, [W.]
tapastaṅkaतपस्तङ्कtapas—taṅka m. ‘afraid of austerities’ id., [L.]
tapastakṣaतपस्तक्षtapas—takṣa m. ‘destroying the power of religious austerity’, Indra (as disturbing the austerities of ascetics lest they should acquire too great power), [L.]
tapasvīṣṭāतपस्वीष्टाtapas—vīṣṭā f. Prosopis spicigera, [Gal.]
tapasomūrtiतपसोमूर्तिtapaso-mūrti m. (= °po-m°) N. of a Ṛṣi of the 12th Manv-antara, [Hariv. 482.]
tapasvikanyāतपस्विकन्याtápas—vi—kanyakā (or °nyā) f. the daughter of an ascetic, [Śak. i, 15/16] and [24]
tapasvipattraतपस्विपत्त्रtapas—vi—pattra m. Artemisia, [L.]
tapasyāmatsyaतपस्यामत्स्यtapasyā-matsya m. = °paḥ-kara, [W.]
tapasvikanyakāतपस्विकन्यकाtápas—vi—kanyakā (or °nyā) f. the daughter of an ascetic, [Śak. i, 15/16] and [24]