Word origins

• JambavanName of an immortal sloth-bear (or sometimes a monkey) in Hindu mythology, often stylized as "king of the bears".
• JambumālīA rakshasa warrior in the Ramayana, son of Ravana's minister Prahasta, killed by Hanuman in Ashoka Vatika.
• JanamejayaSon of Parikshit, who performed Sarpayaga in Mahabharata.
• JananiA female given name from Sanskrit.
• JanardanaAn epithet of Shri Vishnu.
• JaratkaruA rishi, husband of the snake-goddess Manasa and father of rishi Āstīka.
• JatayuThe son of Aruna and king of vultures, who tried to rescue Sita from Ravana in the Ramayana.
• JayasriA female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
• JhankaradhvaniName of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 19th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
• jivanmuktaA person who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has attained nirvikalpa samadhi — the realization of the Self, Parasiva — and is liberated from rebirth while living in a human body.
• jivanmuktiIn Hinduism, the process of achieving complete self-realisation, attaining moksha during one's own life.
• JyeshtaThe third month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
• JyothisA male given name from Sanskrit.
• jyotirlingaA shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlingam or "Lingam (pillar) of light."
• JyotisA female given name from India.
• KabandhaA rakshasa slain and liberated by Rāma and Lakshmana in the Dandakaranya forest.
• KadambariA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KaikasiThe daughter of Sumali, wife of Vishrava, and mother of Ravana, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana, and Shurpanakha.
• KaikeyiThe second queen of King Dasharatha and mother of Bharata in Ramayana.
• KalakutaHalahala
• kalashaA metal pot with a large base and small mouth, used in Hindu rites, in which it is filled with water, coins, grain, etc. and topped with a coconut.
• KalavatiA female given name from Sanskrit.
• Kali PujaA festival celebrating the goddess Kali, held at around October and November.
• Kali YugaIn Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.
• KamadevaThe Hindu deity of love, son of the goddess Sri and the incarnation of Pradyumna, Krishna's son.
• Kamadhenuthe wish-fulfilling cow of plenty who emerged from the churning of the cosmic ocean.
• KamakshiThe Hindu goddess, a form of Parvati.
• kamalamSynonym of dragonfruit, pitaya, pitahaya (a fruit)
• Kama SutraA Sanskrit treatise (sutra) setting forth rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure, love, and marriage in accordance with Hindu law.
• KamnaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KanvaA Vedic Rishi and the foster father of Shakuntala.
• KapilāThe wife of Pundarīka, the Ashtadiggaja of southeast direction.
• kapotasanaAn asana, or pose, consisting essentially of a backbend with knees on the ground.
• karmadharayaA form of tatpuruṣa in which the relation of the first member to the last is appositional, attributive, or adverbial, e.g. uluka-yatu (owl + demon) for a demon in the shape of an owl. Most typically this involves an adjective which modifies a following substantive.
• kartavyaA duty, obligation, task.
• Kartikeyawar god, the son of Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati, and the commander of Deva army.
• kasamardacoffee senna
• kasayaA monastic robe worn by ordained Buddhist monks and nuns.
• kashayaA native Californian people who traditionally live on the Sonoma County coastline, who are a subgroup of the Pomo people.
• KashyapaA revered Vedic sage who is considered to be the author of some of the hymns of the Rigveda; one of the seven Saptarishis; the father of the Adityas.
• KaunteyaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KauravaAny descendant of King Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many characters of the Mahabharata.
• KausalyaThe eldest wife of King Dasharatha; queen of Ayodhya and the mother of Rāma; a character in Ramayana
• KaushalyaThe eldest wife of King Dasharatha; queen of Ayodhya and the mother of Rāma
• KaustubhA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• kayadandacomplete control over one's bodys
• KeeravaniName of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 21st melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
• Keshavaan epithet of Shri Krishna.
• khakkharaa monk's staff used especially by a Buddhist mendicant as a tool for begging or as a weapon
• KharaharapriyaName of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 22nd melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.
• KharoshthiA script used in ancient Gandhara (primarily modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan) to write the Gandhari Prakrit and Sanskrit.
• KhyatiKhyati, one of the twenty four daughters of Prajapati Daksha from his wife Prasuti.
• kirtankarOne who performs a kirtan.
• KishkindhaThe kingdom of the vanaras ruled by Bali and later Sugriva in the Ramayana, traditionally identified with the region around modern Hampi.
• kleshaA mental state, such as fear or ignorance, that clouds the mind and leads to unwholesome actions.
• KokilaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KosalamName of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 71st melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
• koshaAny of five sheaths that are thought to cover the Atman, or True Self, according to Vedantic philosophy.
• KovidA male given name of Sanskrit origin, used in South Asia and among diaspora communities.
• KoyalA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KratagyaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KratarthaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KripacharyaThe royal guru of the Kauravas and Pandavas in the Mahabharata and one of the Chiranjeevi.
• KripiThe sister of Kripa, wife of Drona, and mother of Ashwatthama in the Mahabharata.
• KritagyaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KritarthaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• Krita YugaSatya Yuga, the first and golden age among the four yugas in Hindu cosmology, characterized by absolute truth and virtue.
• KrittikaPleiades
• krosaSynonym of gavyuti (“ancient Indian unit of distance”).
• kshantipatience, forbearance and forgiveness: one of the paramitas in Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism.
• kshetraA holy precinct or temenos.
• Kshira SagaraThe ocean of milk that is the abode of Lord Vishnu, where he rests over his serpent-mount Shesha.
• KshitijA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• Kṣitigarbhaa bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
• KuberaThe god of wealth.
• KumbhakarnaKumbhakarna, younger brother of Ravana.
• KumudA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KumudaAn Ashtadiggaja guarding the southwest quarter and the husband of Anupamā.
• kushaA grass of species Desmostachya bipinnata.
• KushadhwajaThe brother of King Janaka, father of Mandavi and Shrutakirti, and King of Samkasya in the Ramayana.
• KushagraA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• KushanaSynonym of Kushan
• LakshmanavatiGaur, an ancient Bengali city presently divided between Bangladesh and India, after falling to the Sena regime.
• LakshmidasA male given name from Sanskrit
• Lambodaraan epithet of lord Ganesha.
• LokapalaAny of a number of gods associated with specific cardinal and intercardinal directions.
• MadhulikaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• MadhviA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• mahajanapadaOne of 16 prominent ancient Indian realms extant from around 600 BCE to 345 BCE.
• Mahāmāyūrīa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
• MahanadiA river in Central India. It has a course of 858 km and flows through the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
• maharajadhirajaA royal ruler's title in South and Southeast Asia, roughly meaning 'great king of kings', a prestigious indication of the princely state's particularly high rank.
• MaharashtriA Prakrit language of ancient and medieval India, the ancestor of Marathi and Konkani.
• Maha ShivaratriA Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of Lord Shiva on the fourteenth day of Krishna paksha of Phalguna or Magha.
• Mahāsthāmaprāptaa bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
• MaheshwarEpithet of the Hindu god Shiva.
• MaithilA member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group from the Indian subcontinent who speak the Maithili language.
• maithunatantric sexual union
• maitrīBenevolence, lovingkindness or compassion, especially if developed through meditation or mindfulness.
• MalatiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.