tántra n. ([Pāṇ. vii, 2, 9], [Kāś.]) a loom, [v, 2, 70]
the warp, [RV. x, 71, 9]; [AV. x, 7, 42]; [TBr. ii]; [TāṇḍyaBr. x, 5]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Kauś.]; [MBh. i, 806] and [809]
the leading or principal or essential part, main point, characteristic feature, model, type, system, framework, [ŚBr. xii]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xxiii, 19, 1]; [Lāṭy.]; [KātyŚr.] &c. (e.g. kulasya t°, ‘the principal action in keeping up a family i.e. propagation’, [MBh. xiii, 48, 6]; ifc. ‘depending on’, cf. ātma-, sva-, para-, &c.)
doctrine, rule, theory, scientific work, chapter of such a work (esp. the 1st section of a treatise on astron. [VarBṛS. i, 9]; Parāśara's work on astron. [ii, 3]; [vii, 8]), [MBh.] &c. (cf. ṣaṣṭi- &c.)
a class of works teaching magical and mystical formularies (mostly in the form of dialogues between Śiva and Durgā and said to treat of 5 subjects, 1. the creation, 2. the destruction of the world, 3. the worship of the gods, 4. the attainment of all objects, esp. of 6 superhuman faculties, 5. the 4 modes of union with the supreme spirit by meditation ; cf. [RTL. pp. 63], [85], [184], [189], [205 ff.]), [VarBṛS. xvi, 19]; [Pañcat.]; [Daś.]; [Kathās. xxiii, 63]; [Sarvad.]
a spell, [HYog. i, 5]; [Vcar.]
oath or ordeal, [L.]
N. of a Sāman (also called ‘that of Virūpa’), [ĀrṣBr.]
an army (cf. °trin), [BhP. x, 54, 15]
ifc. a row, number, series, troop, [Bālar. ii f.], [vi]
= rājya-t°, government, [Daś. xiii]; [Śiś. ii, 88]
(para t°, ‘the highest authority’), [Subh.]
a means which leads to two or more results, contrivance, [Hariv. ii, 1, 31]
a drug (esp. one of specific faculties), chief remedy, cf. °trāvāpa
= paricchada, [L.]
= anta, [L.]
wealth, [L.]
a house, [L.]
happiness, [W.]
tántra &c. See cols. 1, 2.