Word origins

• netiNasal irrigation performed using a neti pot as part of Hatha yoga.
• mokshaA member of the people who speak this language.
• siddhaOne who has achieved a high degree of physical and spiritual development.
• 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).
• sadhuAn ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
• 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.
• SunitaA female given name from Sanskrit of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning: reliable one, one of good character, one with good morals, good behaviour, a daughter of Dharma or goddess of divine bliss.
• 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.
• vinyasaThe transition between poses executed in succession, often timed with regular breathing.
• 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.
• BahlA surname.
• 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.
• LalitaA Hindu goddess.
• 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.
• manjuA traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawaii, Okinawan ones are made with a filling of purple sweet potato, butter, milk, sugar, and salt, but the most common filling is bean paste.
• AkashThe sky and the cosmos.
• mudraAny of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
• rudrakshaThe dried seed of a large evergreen broad-leaved tree, Elaeocarpus ganitrus, which is traditionally used as prayer beads in Hinduism.
• RaghavA descendant of Raghu; an epithet of Shri Rāma.
• thanaA military outpost.
• 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.
• RudraA Rigvedic deity, associated with wind or storm and the hunt.
• 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.
• Sahajaa style of discipline in Indian spirituality and Dharmic traditions
• 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.
• dhyanaA type of profound meditation.
• 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.
• SindhuThe Indus river
• SurendraA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• VinayakA male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
• chettyA member of one of various South Indian castes of merchants, money-lenders and land-owners.
• 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.
• ratiThe Hindu goddess of love, passion and sexual pleasure.
• mandaraThe sacred mountain used as a churning rod in Samudra Manthana.
• VenkataA male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
• BrahmaputraA domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.
• PratikA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• SahityaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
• RamanujaA Hindu theologian and philosopher.