महासान्तपन n. (
-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.
E. महा great,
सान्तपन a penance.