English words from Sanskrit
- SatyabhamaThe wife of Lord Krishna.
- Satyameva JayateSatyameva Jayate; national motto of India, meaning "truth alone triumphs"
- SatyavatiThe mother of Vyasa.
- Satya YugaThe first and best of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 1,728,000 years.
- SatyvatiThe queen of the Kuru king Shantanu, mother of Vyasa, Chitrangada, and Vichitravirya, and grandmother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu in the Mahabharata.
- SaumitraA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SaumyaA male given name from Sanskrit.
- SaumyāA female given name from Sanskrit.
- SavitrA solar deity (Deva) and one of the Adityas. He is sometimes identified with, and at other times distinguished from, the chief Sun deity Surya.
- SeshagiriA male given name from Sanskrit.
- seṭof a root, having a final i sound in certain forms, originating from a final laryngeal in Proto-Indo-European
- ShabariAn elderly ascetic devotee of Rāma in the Ramayana, renowned for offering sweet berries to Rāma during his search for Sita.
- ShachiThe queen of the gods and the wife of Lord Indra.
- shadjamThe first of the seven swaras, or primary musical notes.
- ShailajaA female given name of Indian usage.
- Shailaputrian epithet of the Goddess Parvati
- ShailputriA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShakuniThe personification of Dvapara Yuga, the brother of Gandhari in the Mahabharata.
- ShambhaviAn epithet of goddess Durga/Parvati, meaning "consort of Shiva".
- SharangaThe divine bow of Lord Vishnu and his avatars.
- SharmishthaThe daughter of the danava King Vrishparva and the wife of King Yayati.
- SharvariA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShashvatA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShashwatA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShatakshiAn epithet of Goddess Durga/Lakshmi.
- ShatarupaThe first woman, created by Lord Brahma alongside Manu to populate the earth
- ShatrughnaSon of Dasharatha and the younger brother of Rāma.
- ShauryaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShephaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Sheshnagathe king of all nagas and the serpent upon whom Lord Vishnu reclines.
- ShikhandiA character in the Mahabharata, child of Drupada, born as a girl but transformed into a boy by a yaksha; slayer of Bhishma.
- shirshasanaThe pose wherein the body is completely inverted, and held upright supported by the forearms, while the crown of the head rests on the floor.
- ShivanshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShivaratriMaha Shivaratri.
- shlokaA distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.
- shraddhaA Hindu ceremony performed in commemoration of one's deceased relatives, especially a parent.
- ShraddhanjaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShreyA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShrishtiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShrutakirtiThe younger daughter of King Kushadhwaja and wife of Shatrughna in the Ramayana.
- ShubhA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ShuchitaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- shudraA member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
- ShukraThe son of Bhrigu, and preceptor of the Daityas, and the guru of the Asuras.
- ShurasenaShurasena, King of Mathura, and the father of Samudravijaya, Vasudeva and Kunti
- ShurpanakhaThe sister of Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
- SiddhantA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- sindoorA traditional red or orange cosmetic powder from India, usually worn by Hindu women along the parting of the hair as a sign of marriage.
- Sitātapatrāa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- SkandA bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
- skandhaAny of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being; aggregate
- SmartaA follower of the Smartha Tradition, a denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion that accepts all major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman.
- SoumyāA female given name from Sanskrit.
- SparshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SrajanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- sramanaSynonym of samana (“Indian ascetic, particularly in Hindu and Jain contexts”).
- sravakaA holy disciple.
- sravyamelodious (in the context of Sanskrit poetry)
- SrijanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SrijanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SrijnaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- StutiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SubahuName of a Nagasura.
- SuchitaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SudhanshuA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SudyumnaThe son of Vaivasvata Manu and progenitor of the Lunar dynasty through his female form, Ila, as the wife of Lord Budha.
- SugrivaThe younger brother of Vali, whom he succeeded as ruler of the Kishkindha in Ramayana.
- SukhavatiThe pure land of Amitābha in Mahayana Buddhism.
- SuktimatiThe capital city of the ancient Indian kingdom of Chedi.
- SulochanaThe wife of Meghnada in Ramayana.
- SumaliA rakshasa king, son of Sukesha, and maternal grandfather of Ravana, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana, and Shurpanakha in the Ramayana.
- SunayanaThe wife of King Janaka and adoptive mother of Goddess Sita.
- SunitiThe queen of King Uttanapada and mother of Dhruva.
- SupratikAn Ashtadiggaja guarding the Ishan (northeast) quarter and the husband of Anjana.
- SupratīkaAn Ashtadiggaja guarding the Ishan (northeast) quarter and the husband of Anjanā.
- Supratiṣṭhitacāritraa bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
- SupuṣpacandraA bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
- SurbhiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SuruchiThe favorite younger queen of King Uttanapada, mother of Uttama and stepmother of Dhruva.
- SuryakantamA rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 17th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.
- Sūryaprabhaa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- SusheelA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SushumnaOne of the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine, the energies or prana of the physical body, are said to flow.
- SuvigyaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SuyashA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- svarabhaktiThe epenthesis of a vowel, as in the football chant Engerland for England; anaptyxis.
- SvargaThe celestial abode of the devas.
- SyamantakA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- TakshaThe son of Bharata and Mandavi, and brother of Pushkala, who founded the city of Taxila in the Ramayana.
- TakshakA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- TakshakaA king of the nagas, who bit King Parikshit causing his death in the Mahabharata.
- tandavaA divine dance performed by the Hindu god Shiva.
- TanujA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- TanviA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Tārāa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- TarakA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- TāṭakāA yakshi princess turned rakshasi, mother of Maricha and Subahu, killed by Lord Rāma.
- tathataThusness, suchness.
- tatpuruṣaA dependent determinative compound, i.e. a compound XY meaning a type of Y which is related to X in a way corresponding to one of the grammatical cases of X.
- TejaswiA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.