tantra (n)
Meanings
- a class of works teaching magical and mystical formularies (mostly in the form of dialogues between Śiva and Durgā and said to treat of 5 subjects)
- a drug
- a house
- a loom
- a spell
- an army
- chapter of such a work (esp. the 1st section of a treatise on astron)
- characteristic feature
- chief remedy
- contrivance
- doctrine
- framework
- government
- happiness
- ifc. a row
- main point
- model
- name of a Sāman
- number
- oath or ordeal
- rule
- scientific work
- series
- system
- the leading or principal or essential part
- the warp
- theory
- troop
- type
- wealth
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