vamachara
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of vamachara.
noun
A path to bliss through practices, including meat-eating, breaking social taboos and indulging in sex and intoxicants, that are sometimes considered immoral.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Dravidians, mild inhabitants of India, worshipped Pitrus (forefathers) and other iconographic representations of deity, emphasizing the hierophantic side of worshipping idols, which included Vamacharas, left-hand practices of the Shakti cult, etc."
- ""The initiated Bhatta (Kashmiri Brahmin) bent upon taking liquor, being addicted to Vamachara by which the pride of his own clan has been set at naught, with a plate of fish in his hand, approaches the house of his teacher[…].""
- "The Aryanised socio-religious culture had degenerated into Vamachara Tantric practices, the cult of sex and palate."
- "The Dakshinacharas emphasised the male principle while the Vamacharas paid more attention to the female principle. But, both exalted sex to a religious principle."
- "Above all, in the medley of Aryans, Mongols and aborigines, which it created, it unconsciously led the way to some of the hideous Vamacharas."
- "The Vamacharas follow texts like Kularnava, Kamika, and the Parasurama agamas among others."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: वामाचार
Usage
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
panchamakara
dakshinachara
Synonyms
vamamarga