tantra

A Dictionary: English and Sanskrit

TANTRA , s. (A religious treatise, generally in the form of a dialogue between Siva and Durga, teaching peculiar and mystical formulæ for the worship of the deities, or the attainment of superhuman power. These works are very numerous, and their authority in many parts of India seems, in a great measure, to have superseded that of the Vedas) तन्त्रं;
‘a follower of the doctrine taught in the Tantras,’ तान्त्रिकः.

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तन्त्रंतान्त्रिक