Word origins

• 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.
• suspended congressA sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them.
• SutratmanThe "String Soul" or "Thread-Self": the cosmic soul, one aspect of the cosmic supreme being.
• sutteeThe traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion.
• 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.
• svaritaFalling accent, which usually follows the acute udātta, in Vedic Sanskrit.
• SvetambaraOne of the two main branches of Jainism (the other being the Digambara), in which the ascetics wear white clothes and are not obliged to practise nudity.
• SyamantakA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• tadasanaA position in which one stands straight upright with feet together and hands by one's sides.
• tadbhavaA word inherited from Old Indo-Aryan through a Prakrit used in a modern Indo-Aryan language.
• tagadhariThe people who wear the Hindu holy thread (yagyopavita) given after the upanayana initiation ceremony.
• 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.
• TanarupiName of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the sixth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
• 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.
• tatsamaA Sanskrit learned loanword used in a South Asian language.
• TejaswiA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• ThrayodashiThe thirteenth day (tithi) in the lunar fortnight (paksha) of the Hindu calendar.
• three firesThree Poisons; three primary causes of unskillful action that lead to the creation of "negative" karma
• til seedA sesame seed (from Sesamum indicum).
• tithiThe lunar date based on the Hindu calendar. There are 30 tithis in each lunar month. Tithis begin at varying times of a solar day and vary in duration from approximately 19 to 26 hours.
• tratakaA form of meditation that involves staring at a single point or object.
• Treta YugaThe second of the four yugas in Hindu cosmology.
• tri-Three.
• trichiliocosmA concept in cosmology of a "third-order" universe containing one thousand second-order clusters, which are made of one thousand first-order clusters, which are in turn made of a thousand worlds each. Billion-fold universe.
• trikonasanaA pose in which the legs are kept straight and wide apart, in the shape of a triangle, while the upper body bends.
• tripundraA tilak consisting of three horizontal lines on the forehead, usually with a dot made from sacred ash.
• triratnaA Buddhist symbol.
• TrishiraA three-headed rakshasa and son of Ravana and Dhanyamalini in the Ramayana.
• trishnaThe Vedic concept of craving or lust.
• trisulaA trident, seen as a religious symbol of Hinduism and Buddhism.
• TritaA mythical hero in the Proto-Indo-Iranian religion and its descendants
• TritiyaThe third day (tithi) in the lunar fortnight (paksha) of the Hindu calendar.
• trutiA unit of time equal to about 30 microseconds.
• TukharSynonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)
• TukharaSynonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)
• TulikaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• TungabhadraA river in South India formed by the union of Tunga and Bhadra rivers, which flows through Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• TvashtrThe craftsman of the devas and the father of Vritra.
• twilight languageA secret communication system, involving verbal, nonvisual, or visual symbols, associated with tantric traditions in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism.
• ubhayapadaUsing forms from both the active and middle voices.
• udāttaA high pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, customarily marked with acute accent.
• ujjayiA diaphragmatic breath technique used in a variety of Taoist and yoga practices.
• UnnatiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• upanayanaAn initiation ceremony undergone by Hindu boys over the age of seven belonging to the highest three castes, marking the start of their formal education.
• UpasanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• UrjaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• UrviA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• UshasVedic and Hindu female deity, personifying the dawn, usually mentioned in plural. She is portrayed as welcoming birds and warding off evil spirits, and as a beautifully adorned young woman riding in a golden chariot on her path across the sky.
• UtkarshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• utkatasanaAn asana that exercises the hamstrings, quadriceps, gluteal muscles, and erector spinae.
• UttamaSon of King Uttanapada and Queen Suruchi, and step-brother of Dhruva.
• UttanapadaA legendary king, son of Swayambhuva Manu, husband of Suniti and Suruchi, and the father of Dhruva and Uttama.
• uttanasanaA pose wherein the body of stretched forward.
• UttarāA princess of Matsya kingdom, daughter of King Virāta, wife of Abhimanyu, and mother of King Parikshit.
• Uttarakurua geographical area mentioned in ancient Indian and classical texts
• VaaniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VācThe goddess of speech, the written word, and language.
• vahanavehicle, carriage; horse or other draught animal
• VaidehiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VaidyanathaOne of the jyotirlinga, a form of Siva in India.
• VaijayantiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VaijyantiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VaikunthaThe Supreme abode or the celestial home of Vishnu.
• vairagiOne who has attained the state of vairagya.
• vairagyadetachment from the material world
• Vairocanaa celestial Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism
• VaisakhaThe second month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
• vaishyaThe third caste of traditional Indian society, comprising merchants and landowners.
• VaisnavaraA name of the fire-god Agni, in his function as a benevolent power.
• VaisravanaA Buddhist deity, considered one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
• VaivasvataThe name of the seventh (i.e. the current) Manu and the father of Ila.
• VajradharaThe ultimate primordial Buddha, according to the Sakya, Gelug and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
• VajrajvālāThe daughter of Mahabali and wife of Kumbhakarna in the Ramayana.
• Vajrapāṇia bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
• Vajrapāramitāa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
• Vajraratnaa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
• vajrasanaA kneeling asana in yoga. The practitioner sits on the heels with the calves beneath the thighs.
• Vajratīkṣṇaa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
• VajravārāhīA wrathful form of Vajrayogini
• vamacharaA follower of the vamachara path.
• VāmanaThe fifth avatar of Lord Vishnu.
• VamikaAn epithet of Goddess Durga/Parvati.
• VanajaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.