The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (596 page)
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Dak
in
c
ra
incra(Skt., ‘night hand’ + ‘custom’).
Tantric
Hinduism of the pure kind, hence ‘right-handed Tantra’, as opposed to
v
m
c
ra
, or ‘left-handed Tantra’—the left hand being the one with which impure acts are undertaken.
Tantric
Hinduism of the pure kind, hence ‘right-handed Tantra’, as opposed to
v
mcra, or ‘left-handed Tantra’—the left hand being the one with which impure acts are undertaken.
Dak
in
gni
.
ingni.
The southern of the three fires in which Hindu offerings are made, in this case to the
pit
s
(the ancestors who dwell in the south).
pit
s(the ancestors who dwell in the south).
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