tápas 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]
Nom. °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]
tapas—takṣa m. ‘destroying the power of religious austerity’, Indra (as disturbing the austerities of ascetics lest they should acquire too great power), [L.]