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śākta

mfn. (fr. śakti) relating to power or energy, relating to the Śakti or divine energy under its female personification, [Sarvad.]

m. a worshipper of that energy (especially as identified with Durgā, wife of Śiva; the Śāktas form one of the principal sects of the Hindūs, their tenets being contained in the Tantras and the ritual enjoined being of two kinds, the impurer called vāmācāra, q.v., and the purer dakṣiṇācāra, q.v.), [RTL. 185] &c.

śāktá m. a teacher, preceptor, [RV. vii, 103, 5]

patr. of Parāśara, [MBh.] (C. śāktra)

n. N. of a Sāman (prob. = śāktya, q.v.)