mahāsāṃtapana | महासांतपन | mahAsAMtapana
mahā—sāṃtapana | महा—सांतपन | m. ‘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), Yājñ.