Word origins

• DevakanyaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• devalokaIn Indian religions, a plane of existence where gods and devas exist; paradise, heaven.
• DevamidhaA king of Mithila, son of Kīrtiratha and ancestor of Janaka.
• DevanganaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• DevantakaA rakshasa, son of Ravana and Dhanyamalini, who was slain by Hanuman in the Ramayana.
• DevasenaThe goddess of aspiration.
• devataA kind of good spirit, similar to a guardian angel or a lesser deity.
• 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.
• DibyenduA male given name from Sanskrit or Bengali, meaning “divine moon”.
• DigambaraOne of the two main branches of Jainism (the other being the Svetambara), in which the ascetics wear no clothes.
• 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.
• doolally tapCamp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity.
• 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.
• Eight Legionsgroup of eight Buddhist deities protecting the Dharma
• 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.
• Four Noble TruthsFour central Buddhist teachings: (i) that suffering is an innate characteristic of existence with each rebirth; (ii) that it is caused by cravings or desires; (iii) that it can be ended by eliminating the cravings or desires; and (iv) that the noble eightfold path is the way to achieve this.
• 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.
• gilli-dandaA game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.
• 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)
• HamirA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• HammirA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• 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.
• HarimaupuraSingapore.
• 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
• Harshad numberA positive integer which is divisible by the sum of all of its digits.
• 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.