महासान्तपन

Shabda-Sagara

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.

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