Austerity
“tapas”
idea · 2 works · 7 mentions · 19 anchored passages
austerity · tapas · fierce austerity · Tapas · vital power
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Ascetic practice whose power grants boons, sustains sacred sites, and characterizes both Kabandha's and Śabarī's devotion.
Have your anger and diet been subdued, O treasure of austerity?
By fierce austerity I had gratified the Grandfather, and he granted me long life;
When they, wearied by fasting and austerity and unable to travel, merely thought of them, behold — the seven oceans came together and arrived here.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ascetic heat/power sought through the girdle rite and embodied by the ecstatic munis.
and grant us austerity and vital power.
The muni, together with Rudra, drank from the cup of poison.
The muni, friend set in place for the welfare of every single god.