As a deity name
Name 349 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 498 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
तपस्विनी · noun · feminine
तपस्या करनेवाली स्त्री · तपस्वी की स्त्री · पतिव्रता या सती स्त्री — Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a female devotee, poor wretched woman
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tapasvinī" is the feminine form of "tapasvin" — the same word with the feminine ending (vocative dual).
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—vinī f. a female devotee, poor wretched woman, Nal.; R. iii, 2, 7; Śak.; Daś.
Nardostachys Jaṭā-māṃsī, L.
Helleborus niger, L.
= mahāśrāvaṇikā, Bhpr.
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
Alternative readings
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