Salvation

CRITICAL: bachao (a widely shared regional Indic loanword meaning ‘rescue/save’) is the best-attested general term, but Sarnaism has no developed eschatological salvation category at all — its ritual life, centered on the jaher and led by the Naeke, targets protection from malevolent bongas, good harvests, and community harmony in this life, addressed when disrupted through an Ojha’s intervention against witchcraft or bonga affliction. This is a genuine conceptual gap, not a wrong-existing-word problem, and must be taught from the ground up rather than corrected from a nearby term.