concept

Tapas

Beliefs & concepts

Ascetic heat and disciplined austerity in Indic speech. Not asceticism as a comparative label alone, and not fasting as the bare act.

Vedic tradition

sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.