Mantra is a distinctive choice of words, the meaning which can only be known through in-depth cultural reading based on culture in mantra lives. This study aims to describe structure and function language Javanese society. The research method uses qualitative descriptive approach. Sources data are mantras collected by purposive sampling. Data were analyzed semantic analysis. validity used with ...

" To the '60s radical, 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' was a mantra. In these Web-happy days it could be, "Boot up, log on, download."

Drawing on both ethnographic and literary sources, this paper indicates that initiations into the mantra of Bālā are essential rites passage for various Tantric communities. We focus two previously unstudied texts: Bālāviṃśati stotra (“Twenty Verses Goddess”), a popular eulogy sung festive occasions in Keralan temples, Bālādīkṣāpaddhati (“A Treatise Initiation Mantra”), short treatise explainin...