# बीजमन्त्र (bījamantra)

Canonical page: https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/bijamantra

बीजमन्त्र (bījamantra) is a Sanskrit word meaning a mystical syllable of a mantra.

- **SLP1:** `bIjamantra`  **IAST:** bījamantra  **Devanagari:** बीजमन्त्र
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%ABjamantra
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/bijamantra/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** बीजमंत्र (bījamaṃtra)

## Meanings by context

### Other (1 definition)
- a mystical syllable of a mantra  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 732,3] बीज (bīja) — मन्त्र (—mantra) n. N. of a mystical syllable of a Mantra ( cf. above), Horace H. Wilson, author of first Sanskrit-English dictionary in 1819 (Author) [ ID=145441 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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