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Sacred word
Answer for the clue "Sacred word ", 6 letters:
mantra
Alternative clues for the word mantra
- Snare hasn't closed — you can say that again!
- Word or phrase that's chanted repeatedly
- Phrase repeated to aid meditation
- "Om," e.g
- T. M. word or formula
- "Location, location, location," to a real estate agent
- "No pain, no gain," to many a bodybuilder
- Fellow translated only the first three in sacred text
Word definitions for mantra in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mantra is a religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. Mantra or Manthra may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB recite ▪ John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath. repeat ▪ Continually, they stand at the Dispatch Box and repeat the mantra that they are committed to the guarantee. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Every ...
Usage examples of mantra.
It happened to be the Gayatri mantra, that most sublime of all verses, the sloka that paved the way for all auspicious beginnings.
Sanskrit mantra as fiercely as a general calling out a battle cry, and in a burst of blinding blue light, he morphed into the seer-mage Vishwamitra.
For a moment Dasaratha thought he was about to sketch a mantra in the air, blasting the second Vishwamitra to ashes, proving his own authenticity.
Vishwamitra nodded, and both seer-mages raised their arms high, chanting a mantra that even Dasaratha had never heard before.
The mantra I spoke instructed it to seek out and expose those corrupted by the lord of Lanka.
And at the right time, she would have sent out a mantra to inflame that masth elephant, panicking the horses of the PFs on Raghuvamsha Avenue and causing a stampede.
As the crowd muttered and shifted uneasily, Vishwamitra chanted aloud a mantra too arcane and complex for any brahmin to decipher.
Vishwamitra reached the end of his second mantra, and as abruptly as the chaos had begun, it ended.
The next moment they were still as statues, frozen in the attitudes in which they had been at the instant the mantra took effect.
As he had recited the Gayatri mantra, standing waist-deep in the icy flowing water, taking his acamana, he had been aware of eyes watching his back.
Kamboja stallion that had proved implacable even in the heat of battle, wheeled in startled terror, settling only after he whispered the mantra of Shani, his patron deity, in its ear.
He spurred his mount on with another mantra, riding to the aid of the fallen horseman trapped beneath his own mount, its head hacked off and still gushing dark blood, everything coated with a thick layer of brownish-black offal streaked with patches of mucous slime.
I have used a mantra that ensures that your arrows are replaced faster than you can loose them.
As the last syllables of the mantra faded away, traveling with shrieking penetration into the depths of the jungle, Lakshman heard the ground-shaking thunder of the next wave approaching.
Speak any mantra and the corresponding shining one will be at your command instantly.