a commonly repeated word or phrase
"she repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra"
(Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
"During our morning ritual, the priest recited an ancient Vedic mantra from the Rigveda to invoke the presence of the gods."
The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.
"As a young scholar in India, he would begin each morning by reciting the ancient mantra from the Vedas to invoke divine protection before his studies."