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tapaś

tapas n. warmth, heat (pañcatapāṃsi, 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.

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1. تَةَس

tapas n. warmth, heat (pañcatapāṃsi, 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.

2. تَةَس

religious austerity, bodily mortification, penance, severe meditation, special observance ( e.g. ‘sacred learning’ with Brāhmans , ‘protection of subjects’ with Kṣatriya s, ‘giving alms to Brāhmans ’ with Vaiśya s, ‘service’ with Śūdra s, and ‘feeding upon herbs and roots’ with Ṛṣi s, Mn. xi, 236 ), …

3. تَةَس

( 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

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.