Word origins

• Devayanithe daughter of Shukra and wife of King Yayati.
• Devi Kanya Kumarian avatar of Mahadevi
• DevkanyaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DevyaniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DhanishtaThe twenty-third nakshatra or lunar mansion in Hindu astronomy corresponding to α to δ Delphini.
• dharanaSingle-minded focus or concentration as part of practising yoga.
• dharaniA Buddhist chant or incantation.
• dharmapalaBuddhist deity; protector of Buddhism
• Dharmarajaan epithet of Lord Yama, the god of justice and death
• DheerasankarabharanamA rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 29th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
• DhenukaA rāgam (musical scale) in Carnatic music. It is the ninth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
• DhrishtadyumnaThe son of Drupada, brother of Draupadi and commander-in-chief of the Pandava army in Mahabharata.
• DhritarashtraThe king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata.
• DhvaniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DhwaniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DitiThe daughter of Daksha, wife of Kashyapa, and mother of the Daityas.
• DivakarA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DiviyaA female given name from Sanskrit.
• DivyanganaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DivyanshuA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DivyataA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DiwakarA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• dokshitAn evil spirit.
• dravyasubstance or entity
• DrupadaThe king of Panchala and father of Draupadi, Dhrishtadyumna, and Shikhandi in Mahabharata.
• DurvasaA rishi known for his short temper, son of rishi Atri and goddess Anasuya and the brother of Dattatreya and Chandra.
• DūṣaṇaA rakshasa general in the Ramayana, brother of Khara and Ravana; slain by Rāma in Janasthana.
• DushyantA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DushyantaA great king of the Lunar dynasty, the husband of Shakuntala, and the father of Emperor Bharata in Mahabharata.
• duskarmaA misdeed, sinful action, vice, or wrong.
• dvandvaA copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.
• Dvapara YugaThe third of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 864,000 years.
• dviguA form of tatpuruṣa in which the modifying member is a number.
• dvijaA person who has been born again spiritually, usually by a rite of passage that initiates them into a school for Vedic studies.
• DwadashiThe twelfth lunar day (tithi) of the fortnight (paksha) of every month in the Hindu calendar.
• dwi-A designation prefix for undiscovered chemical elements lying two periods under a known element in the periodic table. (For example, rhenium was called dwi-manganese before its discovery in 1925.)
• DwitiyaThe second day (tithi) in the lunar fortnight (paksha) of the Hindu calendar.
• Dyaus PitaIn the Vedic religion, the Sky Father, husband of Prithvi and father of Agni and Indra.
• eka-Used to form prototype names for as-yet undiscovered elements, when prepended to the known element above them in the same group of the periodic table.
• EkadantaThe Hindu lord Ganesha.
• EkadashiThe eleventh day (tithi) of the lunar fortnight (paksha) of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar.
• ekagrataExtreme focus on a particular point.
• GajananaGanesha (Hindu deity).
• gamakaAn ornamentation in Indian classical music.
• GandhariWife of Dhritarashtra, mother of Kauravas and the sister of Shakuni.
• GāndhārīAn Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.
• GarimaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GarvitA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GarvitaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GautamiThe wife of rishi Gautama.
• gavyutiAn ancient Indian unit of distance, equivalent to 12,000 feet; supposed to be the distance at which a cow's call or lowing can be heard.
• GayakapriyaName of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the thirteenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
• Gayatri Mantraa popular mantra in Hinduism, dedicated to the Vedic deity Savitr.
• GeetanjaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GeetikaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• ghatamAn earthenware pot used as a percussion instrument in the Carnatic music of South India.
• GhatotkachaThe son of Bhima and rakshasi Hidimbā in the Mahabharata.
• GitikaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• GolokaThe celestial abode of the Hindu god Krishna and his chief consort goddess Radha.
• GomatiA river in northern India, tributary of the Ganga, flowing through Uttar Pradesh.
• GomtiA river in northern India, tributary of the Ganga, flowing through Uttar Pradesh.
• gotraThe lineage or clan assigned to a Hindu at birth.
• grihasthaThe second (householder) ashrama in Hindu spiritual life.
• GungunA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• gurukulaA residential school in India with pupils living near the guru, often in the same house.
• Guru PurnimaA festival dedicated to spiritual and academic teachers.
• HalahalaA poison drunk by Shiva, thus turning his neck blue.
• Halayudhaan epithet of Balarama (one whose weapon is a plough)
• HarikambhojiName of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 28th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.
• harikathaA form of Hindu religious discourse in which the storyteller explores a religious theme, usually the life of a saint or a story from an Indian epic.
• HarishchandraA legendary Indian king known for his commitment to truth and, in the Puranas, selling his kingdom, his family and ultimately himself to repay Vishwamitra after insulting him
• Haritigoddess and yakshini in certain Buddhist traditions
• HarshitA male given name from Sanskrit, common in India
• HastinapuraA city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Hasya yogaSynonym of laughter yoga
• Hatha yogaA form of yoga that focuses on control of the body.
• havanA ritual, rooted in the Vedic religion, in which offerings of food etc. are burnt in order to bring good luck on a special occasion.
• HayagrivaAn avatar of the Lord Vishnu in Hinduism.
• HemadriThe sacred golden mountain.
• HemavatiHemavati; an epithet of the Goddess Parvati
• HemvatiA female given name from Sanskrit, used in India.
• HerambaA form of the Hindu god Ganesha.
• HidimbaA rakshasa in the Mahabharata, brother of Hidimbā, who was slain by Bhima.
• HidimbāThe sister of rakshasa Hidimba, who became the wife of Bhima and mother of Ghatotkacha in the Mahabharata. Also known as Hidimbi.
• HiranyagarbhaA name of Brahma, so called because he was born from a golden egg (Manu Smṛti 1.9).
• HiranyakashipuHiranyakashipu, son of Kashyapa and Diti, father of Prahlada, slain by the Narasimha avatar of Vishnu.
• hotrThe priest who recites invocations and litanies during the yajna service.
• IcchaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• icchantikaA non-Buddhist person who lacks Buddha-nature, and is therefore incapable of achieving nirvana.
• IkshvakuThe first king of Ayodhya, one of the sons of Vaivasvata Manu, and ancestor of Rāma.
• IndrajeetAn epithet of Meghnada, the eldest son of Ravana and the crown prince of Lanka.
• IndraneelA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• Iravana village deity, character in Mahabharata; son of Arjuna and Ulupi.
• ItihasaThe collection of written descriptions of important events in Hinduism, including the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Ramayana.
• JagapatiA male given name from Sanskrit.
• JahnaviA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• JahnuA king and rishi of the Lunar dynasty who drank the river Ganga and then released her through his ear.
• JahnviA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• JalajaA female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
• Jamadagnione of the Saptarishis and the father of Lord Parashurama.