shanti
शान्ति śāntiPeace; the word repeated three times (shantih shantih shantih) to close a mantra or recitation and quiet the three orders of obstacle, within, around and beyond.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
An *asura* is a member of the class of powerful beings who contend with the *devas*, the gods, for sovereignty over the worlds. The word did not begin as an insult.…
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
Graha-shanti: the remedies For every affliction the tradition names, it offers a response, and the whole family of responses has a single old name: graha-shanti , the pacification of the planets.
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
The six acts The six, as the manuals list them, run from the harmless to the terrible, and the tradition is clear-eyed about the difference. The first is shanti , or shantikarana , pacification.
- From the margins to the Lord of beginnings Treatise
…using and the removing of obstacles, and the text supplies a Vinayaka-shanti , a ceremony to appease the power whose grip spoils a person's undertakings, studies, and sleep.
- The six acts Treatise
The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
The word was never taken up by the people whose name it is. From the earliest lexical record to the marketing of 2026, *śābara* was repurposed by parties standing…