महा—सांतपन m. 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
कुश 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
सांतपन [
[Mn. xi, 212] ]; others omit the 6th and 7th penance, making the whole last 15 days),
[Yājñ.]