n. [tap-asun] 1 Warmth, heat, fire.

2 Pain, suffering.

3 Penance, religious austerity, mor- tification; tapaḥ kiledaṃ tadavāptisādhanaṃ Ku. 5. 64.

4 Meditation connected with the practice of personal self- denial or bodily mortification.

5 Moral virtue, merit.

6 Special duty or observance of any particular caste.

7 One of the seven worlds; i. e. the region above the world called janas.

8 The month of...