تپس

तपस् tapas (in comp. tapo), s.m. Heat; fire (esp. as an instrumentof self-torture); pain, suffering, torture; religious austerity, penance mortification, the practice of mental or personal self-denial or the infliction of bodily torture; the meditation connected with such a practice;—moral virtue, merit; special observance or duty of any particular caste (e.g. the tapasof a Brāhman is sacred learning; of a Kshatriya, the protection of subjects; of a Vaiśya, giving alms to Brāhmans; of a Śūdra, service; and of a Rishi or saint, feeding upon herbs and roots); one of the seven worlds, inhabited by saints or devotees after death;—the hot season:—tapobal, s.m. The power acquired by religious austerities:—tapo-dhan, adj. & s.m. Rich in religious penance; ascetic, pious;—one who treasures up the merit of mortifications and austerities, an ascetic, a devotee, one who performs religious penance:—tapo-lok, s.m. One of the seven worlds (see above):—tapovaṭ, s.m. 'Enclosure or district of religious penance,' a name applied to the holy land situated in central India:—tapo-van, tapo-ban, s.m. 'Penance grove,' a sacred grove in which ascetics perform their religious austerities:—tapo-vrat, s.m. Penance and religious fasting.