Word origins

• UdayA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• AtalA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• PankajA male given name from Sanskrit common in India.
• dashaOne of various systems of Hindu astrology based on planetary periods, in which these planetary periods have good or bad effects depending on their placement by sign, house, combinations with other planets, and aspects.
• VishalA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• NikhilA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• kamalaA small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia.
• DevendraA male given name from India.
• LalitA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DurgaThe goddess of war, strength, and protection.
• VedantaA Hindu system of philosophy concerned with the self-realisation by which one comes to understand the ultimate nature of reality, or Brahman.
• AbhishekA male given name from Sanskrit.
• AryaAn Indo-Iranian, an Aryan.
• padmalotus blossom
• YamaThe Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
• ShyamA male given name of Indian usage.
• darshanHierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object).
• vidyaVideo games.
• pavanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MeenaA member of a certain tribe of Rajasthan, India.
• AnjaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MeruThe abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
• rishiA Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character.
• HEMAAn ethnic group of Nilotic origin who are concentrated in parts of Ituri Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• SamarAn island of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.
• hanumanAn entellus (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus)
• GauravA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• AnnapurnaGoddess Durga.
• asanaA body position, typically associated with the practice of yoga.
• ambaA characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.
• atmanThe true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.
• MadhuA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KailashA mountain of the Transhimalaya in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, considered to be sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Bön.
• amritaThe water of life; the drink of the Hindu gods.
• AtulA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MahayanaOne of the two primary branches of Buddhism that emerged around the 1st century BCE, which accepts non-Pali canon scriptures, and emphasizes the path of bodhisattva.
• ashtangaThe classical system of yoga described in the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali.
• NarayanaVishnu.
• KashiSynonym of Kashgar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
• ShuklaA surname.
• AlokA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• yantraA geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.
• NaveenA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• rupaform, shape, outward appearance.
• SantoshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KapilA Vedic rishi credited as the founder of the Samkhya school, and the son of Prajapati Kardama and Devahuti
• KalyanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• TarunA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• bodhiThe state of enlightenment that finally ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana.
• prashantA croissant.
• AyodhyaA city, division, and administrative headquarters of Ayodhya district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on the bank of the Sarayu river.
• ArundhatiThe wife of the sage Vasishtha, celebrated for her virtue.
• satiPious person
• PraveenA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GoswamiA surname from Sanskrit.
• JyotiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MahabharataAn ancient Sanskrit epic concerning some text of the Bhagavad Gita, including elaborations on theology and morality.
• KavitaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VasuAny of the attendant deities of Indra, and later Vishnu. They are eight elemental gods representing aspects of nature.
• paikA foot soldier or armed attendant, in some cases holding land in exchange for military service.
• nalaThe king of Nishada Kingdom, son of Veerasena and husband of Damayanti in Mahabharata.
• GayatriA composition in the Gayatri metre.
• VarunA male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
• jivaAll living beings; the essence or soul of such beings.
• ShaniA deity in Hinduism, the personification of the planet Saturn, associated with justice, karma, and discipline.
• SriramA surname.
• dayaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• RekhaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• YashA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MahendraOne of the holy mountains in India.
• siraA traditional Muslim biography of Muhammad.
• SaritaA census-designated place, the county seat of Kenedy County, Texas, United States.
• karunaCompassion; mercy.
• SaurabhA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VandanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MallikaArabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• SeemaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• pittaAny passerine belonging to the taxonomic family Pittidae.
• RaghuA legendary king of parts of India
• DevanagariOf the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
• AnkurA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• yoniThe vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
• NishaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• ManoharA male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
• kuruA chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
• chinasA people mentioned in ancient Indian literature from the first millennium BC and first millennium AD, such as the Mahabharata, Laws of Manu, and Puranic literature.
• DivyaA female given name from Sanskrit.
• BhandariA member of a caste of toddy tappers.
• ManishaA female given name from Sanskrit.
• TusharA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• kumariA living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.
• tilakA mark or symbol worn on the forehead by Hindus, ornamentally or as an indication of status.
• SouravA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KalpanaA female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
• AnuragA male given name from Sanskrit used mainly in India.
• ShilpaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• AditiThe daughter of Daksha, wife of Kashyapa, and mother of the gods.
• ArunaSon of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya.
• vaidyaA practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine.
• MukulA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.