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mantra

Sacred utterance or sound used in meditation, often repeated
Intangible music_genre Q131510
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Summary

mantra is a music genre[1]. mantra ranks in the top 5% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,652 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: chant[3]
  • Commons category: Mantras[4]
  • Country of origin: India[5], Iran[6]
  • Inception: 2000 BC[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mantras[8]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11]

Why It Matters

mantra has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] mantra is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Gayatri Mantra India Iran

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX527926
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX527926"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006851-mantry
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006851-mantry, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → music genre
    Topic's main category → Category:Mantras
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → chant
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 23460, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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