As a deity name
Name 228 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 785 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 34 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 410 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
practising austerities, an ascetic, (compar.), (superl. -vi-tama), (compar. ) &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tapasvine" is the dative of "tapasvin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "tapasvin" is derived from "tapas" with the vini suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
tapas n. warmth, heat (pañca tapāṃsi, the 5 fires to which a devotee exposes himself in the hot season, viz. 4 fires lighted in the four quarters and the sun burning from above, Mn. vi, 23; R.; BhP. iv; BrahmaP.; cf. Ragh. xiii, 41), RV.; AV.; VS.; ŚāṅkhŚr.
pain, suffering, RV. vii, 82, 7
tapas—vin mfn. (Pāṇ. v, 2, 102) distressed, wretched, poor, miserable, TS. v, 3, 3, 4 (compar. -vi-tara), R. ii f.; Śak.; Mālav.; BhP.; Sāh.
practising austerities, (m.) an ascetic, AV. xiii, 2, 25; Kāṭh. xx (compar.), xxiii (superl. -vi-tama), ŚBr. (compar. ii) &c.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
tapas—vin mfn. (Pāṇ. v, 2, 102) distressed, wretched, poor, miserable, TS. v, 3, 3, 4 (compar. -vi-tara), R. ii f.; Śak.; Mālav.; BhP.; Sāh.
practising austerities, (m.) an ascetic, AV. xiii, 2, 25; Kāṭh. xx (compar.), xxiii (superl. -vi-tama), ŚBr. (compar. ii) &c.
tapas n. warmth, heat (pañca tapāṃsi, the 5 fires to which a devotee exposes himself in the hot season, viz. 4 fires lighted in the four quarters and the sun burning from above, Mn. vi, 23; R.; BhP. iv; BrahmaP.; cf. Ragh. xiii, 41), RV.; AV.; VS.; ŚāṅkhŚr.
pain, suffering, RV. vii, 82, 7
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