Shakta

American  

[shahk-tuh] / ˈʃɑk tə /

Or Sakta

noun

Hinduism.

1. a person who worships Shakti as the wife of Shiva.

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Shakta British  

/ ˈʃʌktə /

noun

1. Hinduism a devotee of Sakti, the wife of Siva

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Other Word Forms

• Shaktism noun
• Shaktist noun

Etymology

Origin of Shakta

From the Sanskrit word śākta pertaining to Shakti

Example Sentences

Yet the census-wallahs shoehorned Indians who had, says Ms. Truschke, “long used discrete identifiers such as Vaishnavites, Shaivites, Shakta worshippers, Lingayats, Satnamis, Ramanandis, bhaktas, and Brahmins” into one broad category.

From The Wall Street Journal

The religious part of it is very simple, consisting merely of the repetition of the Mula mantra, which may or may not be preceded by the usual mode of Shakta worship.

From Project Gutenberg

Nehru's modern India would like to change Shakta customs.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day last week a 28-year-old Shakta named Odia Patel, clad only in a loincloth, walked into a magistrate's office in Bali, a district of Rajasthan in Northwest-Central India.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta.

From Time Magazine Archive