महासान्तपन (mahAsAntapana)
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शब्दसागरः
Englishमहासान्तपन (-नं) A sort of penance
subsisting for six successive
days, respectively, on cow's urine, cowdung, milk, curds, Ghee, and
water in which Kūsa 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 Sānta-
pana penance
others omit the two last periods, making it last
fifteen days.
महा great, सान्तपन a penance.
Spoken Sanskrit
English महासान्तपन mahAsAntapana greatly tormenting
महासान्तपन mahAsAntapana kind of severe penance
Wilson
Englishमहासान्तपन
(-नं) 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 Sāntapana penance
others omit the two
last periods, making it last fifteen days.
महा great, and सान्तपन a penance.
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Monier Williams Cologne
Englishमहा—सांतपन ‘greatly tormenting’, a kind of severe penance (viz. subsisting for 6 successive days respectively on cow's urine, cow-dung, milk, curds, ghee and water in which Kuśa grass has been boiled, and fasting on the 7th
or instead of 1 day some authorities assign a period of 3 days to each penance, considering the first kind as the common Sāṃtapana [Mn. xi, 212]
others omit the 6th and 7th penance, making the whole last 15 days),
Apte Hindi
Hindiमहासान्तपनः
महा-सान्तपनः -
एक प्रकार की घोर तपस्या
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskritमहासान्तपनं, (महत् सान्तपनम् ।)व्रतविशेषः । यथा । अथ महासान्तपनम् ।तत्र द्व्यहसाध्यसान्तपनमुक्त्वा याज्ञवल्क्यः ।“पृथक्सान्तपनैर्द्रव्यैः षडहः सोपवासकः ।सप्ताहेनैव कृच्छ्रोऽयं महासान्तपनः स्मृतः ॥
एतत् सप्ताहसाध्यम् । जावालः ।“गोमूत्रं गोमयं क्षीरं दधि सर्पिः कुशोदकम् ।एकैकं क्रमशोऽश्नीयादहोरात्रमभोजनम् ॥
कृच्छ्रः सान्तपनो नाम सर्व्वपापप्रणाशनः ।एकैकमेतदेवं हि त्रिरात्रमुपयोजयेत् ॥
त्र्यहञ्चोपवसेदन्त्यं महासान्तपने विधिः ॥
”एतत् सप्ताहसाध्यसान्तपनमुक्त्वा एकविंशति-दिनसाध्यं महासान्तपनमुक्तम् । महासान्त-पनं धेनुषट्कदानसमम् । जावालोक्तमहा-सान्तपनस्य एकविंशतिदिनसाध्यत्वेन सप्ताह-साध्यसान्तपनात् त्रिगुणत्वान्महासान्तपने धेनु-षट्कं देयम् । इति प्रायश्चित्तविवेकः ॥
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