tantra-mantra
tantra-mantraThe trade and colloquial label for magical ritual: the name of a numbered department in a Bombay press catalogue, a word many Hindus now use to dismiss what they deny is Tantra, and a term written into Indian anti-witchcraft statutes.
Where this term appears
- Why so much online "spirituality" is inauthentic, and how to tell Journal
A great deal of what circulates online as "ancient spiritual wisdom" is recent material, often Western, dressed up in old robes. The rainbow seven-chakra chart, the…
- The bazaar press Treatise
Same machine, same trade discount. One of the departments was tantra-mantra .
- The channel and the algorithm Treatise
ETV Bharat on a man arrested in Chhattisgarh for defrauding people of ₹52 lakh on the pretext of tantra-mantra .
- The harm ledger Treatise
…to be affected by Tonahi and make him powerless, by jharphook, totka, tantra-mantra or by any means." The clause in the middle of that is doing more work than it looks.
- The six acts Treatise
…the relevance of Tantra to their tradition and dismiss what they call tantra-mantra .
- Two Śābaratantras Treatise
…by tonahi , and to render that power harmless, by jharphook , totka , tantra-mantra or by any means.