English words from Sanskrit
- RoliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ahimsaA doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
- ParvatiA Hindu goddess, the goddess of love, devotion and power; nominally the second consort of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and rejuvenation.
- GautamaSiddhartha Gautama - the personal name of the Buddha.
- yugaIn Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages, catur-yuga catur-yuga: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
- samajA society, community or congregation, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.
- RenuA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- KalkiThe tenth avatar of Vishnu.
- PrasannaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnantA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- NagarjunaA male given name from Sanskrit.
- SharadA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- MadhurA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- gopiAny of the milkmaids that were companions of Krishna in Indian mythology.
- mokshaA member of the people who speak this language.
- SudhaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RituSynonym of Rutog; a place in Tibet, China: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- jnanaThe knowledge, acquired through meditation, that one's self (atman) is identical with Ultimate Reality (Brahman).
- kirtanA call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions.
- AnupamA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- gunaA lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, u, by prefixing an a element.
- AbhijitA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RenukaName of the wife of Jamadagni and mother of Parashurama (she was the daughter of रेणु) in Mahabharata.
- MaltiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ChaitanyaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- vaniA custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.
- ParagA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ashwagandhaWithania somnifera, a stout shrub that produces red berry-like fruit, native to India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- UditA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RohiniRohini, sister of Yashoda, one of the wives Vasudeva, mother of Balarama, and Subhadra, the siblings of the Krishna.
- RashmiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RatnaA unisex given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.
- ChetanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ChandanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- satsangA company of pious people seeking truth, such as honorable companions or a guru who are listening to or reading scriptures, and reflection, discussion, application and meditation.
- diyaA small bowl-shaped oil lamp, usually made from clay, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oil, often used on religious occasions.
- GondwanaA region of central India.
- NarasimhaThe fourth avatara of the Hindu god Vishnu.
- PramodA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- GodavariA major river in South India which flows through Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
- EktaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- chediA Thai Buddhist monument similar to a stupa.
- AnupA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- NeerajA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AparnaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- MandarThe Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Mandarese people.
- AnoopA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SushilA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- UpanishadAny of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.
- AkashThe sky and the cosmos.
- mudraAny of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
- RaghavA descendant of Raghu; an epithet of Shri Rāma.
- BharataA legendary emperor of India, and is referred to in Hindu and Jain theology. He was son of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala in Mahabharata.
- AbhinavA male given name from Sanskrit.
- AbhayA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Jayantian epithet of goddess Durga/Parvati.
- MilindA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- sandhyaMorning or evening prayers.
- MananA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PayalA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AshutoshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PreetiA female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
- ArchanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- NandiniA female given name from Sanskrit
- MohitA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- aartiA particular Hindu prayer ritual, involving candles made from clarified butter.
- vataThe dosha representing air or wind.
- JayantA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- alapThe opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
- VasudevaVasudeva, husband of Devaki, and Rohini, son of Shurasena, and the father of Krishna, and Balarama
- RavanaThe king of the asuras, ruler of Lanka and killed by Rama in Ramayana.
- brahmanaThe brahmin varna in Hinduism. (Plural: brahmana.)
- PuranaA text that is part of an ancient Indian genre of Hindu or Jain written literature, concerning various topics, including cosmogony and mythology.
- KalingaAn indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.
- SeshadriA surname from Sanskrit.
- VaishaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- HimanshuA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AkhilA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- KhareA surname from Sanskrit.
- RamachandraA male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
- AnujA male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
- tathagataA term of address to a buddha.
- YuvrajA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- UrmilaThe daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and the younger sister of Sita. She was the wife of Lakshmana in Ramayana.
- SurendraA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- GauriA Hindu goddess.
- KalyaniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ambarAny of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
- shrutiThe smallest interval of pitch that can be detected or produced.
- SaciA young, black, one-legged prankster in Brazilian folklore, who smokes a pipe and wears a magical red hat that enables him to disappear.
- AbhaA female given name from Sanskrit, used in India.
- mandaraThe sacred mountain used as a churning rod in Samudra Manthana.
- BrahmaputraA domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.
- PratikA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SahityaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RamaniA surname.
- bhavaA feeling or mood, especially one of maturation that arises from understanding of the continuity of life and death (reincarnation).
- VajrayanaA form of Mahayana Buddhism that emphasises esoteric practices in order to attain Buddhahood at a much quicker rate.
- Mahavir24th Jain Tirthankara.
- ShantaThe daughter of King Dasharatha and Queen Kausalya, adopted by King Romapada, and wife of Rishyashringa in the Ramayana.