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vamacharas

vamacharas is the plural of vamachara.

Meaning of vamachara

Noun

vamachara (countable and uncountable, plural vamacharas)

  1. (tantric religion) A path to bliss through practices, including meat-eating, breaking social taboos and indulging in sex and intoxicants, that are sometimes considered immoral.
    • The other vamachara does indeed exist here with all its objectionable practices, in the name of the worship of innumerable petty female deities such as Mariyamman.1977, Saiva Siddhanta, volume 12, page 65
  2. (countable) Any such path, set of practices or individual practice.
    • Side by side with popular saivism, which was being guided by tantras, including those of vamacharas, from a fairly earl[y] period[…].1981, Ca. Vē Cuppiramaṇiyan̲, S. V. Subramanian, Na Kaṭikācalam, editors, Literary Heritage of the Tamils, page 367
    Synonyms:
    vamamarga

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Noun capitalized: Vamacharas

Vamacharas

  1. (plural) plural of Vamachara

Questions about vamacharas

What is vamacharas the plural of?
Vamacharas is the plural of vamachara.
What part of speech is vamacharas?
Vamacharas is a noun.

Words near vamacharas in the dictionary

  1. Valyrians
  2. valzin
  3. VAM
  4. Vama
  5. vamachara
  6. vamacharas
  7. VAMB
  8. vambasium
  9. vambasiums
  10. vambrace
  11. vambraced

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