English words from Sanskrit
- TripitakaAny of several canons of Buddhist scripture.
- MedhaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- MayawatiRati, the goddess of love and wife of Kamadeva.
- Ruchia Prajapati
- BaldevBalarama
- RaghavaEpithet (patronymic) of Rāma, descendant of Raghu.
- satguruIn Hinduism and Buddhism, a great teacher; a supremely wise guide.
- NyayaOne of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy — specifically the school of logic.
- SkandaA bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
- NayanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- kadamA tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
- sandhiAny of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.
- mandiraA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Draupadiwife of the Pandavas
- BhishmaThe name of a hero in the Mahabharata.
- SarojiniA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- KawiA literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok.
- PrathamA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- darsanaA philosophy, worldview.
- MadhukarA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- VirataA king of the Matsya kingdom in the Mahabharata, in whose court the Pandavas spent their year of exile in disguise.
- ParimalA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- KalidasaKalidasa, a renowned 4th century author, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language
- SakshiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PrakritOf or pertaining to this language.
- Indranigoddess Indrani
- IndraprasthaAn ancient city of India, the capital of the Pandavas, located in modern-day Delhi.
- bandhaAny of the various "body locks" in Hatha Yoga, treated under the heading of mudra.
- ShishirA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- MithilaAn ancient city in India, once the capital of the Videha kingdom.
- BalaramaBalarama, son of Vasudeva, and Rohini, brother of Subhadra, and Krishna, who uses a plough as his weapon.
- SumitraThe third wife of King Dasharatha; mother of twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna in Ramayana.
- padparadschaA rare pinkish-orange variety of corundum.
- AbhimanyuOne of the ten sons of Manu.
- SavitaA female given name from India.
- ChanakyaA shrewd politician or, in general, a cunning person; a Machiavelli.
- pramanameans of knowledge
- AvalokiteshvaraA bodhisattva who embodies compassion.
- ShefaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- vibhutiAsh from burnt wood applied to the forehead.
- VasundharaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- shikhaThe long lock of hair left on the shaved head of an orthodox Hindu, especially a Brahmin or temple priest.
- rakshasaA member of a race of mythical fanged demons that eat human flesh and blood, somewhat like vampires.
- NavratriA Hindu festival dedicated to the worship of Durga.
- Bahujana person in South Asia that is caste oppressed or a religious minority.
- svaraA concept in Indian music, comparable to a note or tone.
- BhimA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- VishwasA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnanyaA male given name from Sanskrit.
- BhumikaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PingaliA surname.
- ShubhaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- KripaThe royal guru of the Kauravas and Pandavas in the Mahabharata and one of the Chiranjeevi; also know as Kripacharya.
- KuntiKunti, wife of Pandu, mother of Pandavas and daughter of Shurasena, adopted by Kuntibhoja in the Mahabharata.
- KamsaThe ruler of Mathura, brother of Devaki and uncle of Lord Krishna.
- KrantiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- LokeshA male given name from Sanskrit.
- RigvedaAn ancient Indian Veda and sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas), composed between 1700–1100 B.C.E.
- paramparaA particular guru's lineage.
- GunjanA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- gandharvaA spirit, usually depicted as a singer or musician.
- NatarajaThe dancing posture of the Hindu god Shiva, who performs his divine dance as a part of his activities of creation and destruction.
- Shakuntalathe daughter of Vishwamitra and Menaka, the wife of King Dushyanta, and the mother of Emperor Bharata.
- SamayA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PreetA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SaikatA male given name from Bengali used in India.
- sampradayaAny of several Hindu sects or denominations
- SuryanarayanaEpithet of Narayana.
- BhoomiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- haorA marshy wetland ecosystem in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, mainly in the Sylhet Division, physically a bowl- or saucer-shaped depression that forms large water bodies during the monsoon floods.
- SrishtiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SahajA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- kumbhaA piece of Indian pottery symbolizing the womb and fertility.
- ShyamalA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- RadhakrishnaA male given name from Sanskrit.
- sunyataEmptiness, the absence of an intrinsic essence or nature which is stable and separable from other things.
- DevakiThe cousin of Kamsa, wife of Vasudeva and the biological mother of Krishna.
- VardanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- GitanjaliA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- YudhishthiraIn the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti, who was king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura.
- ishanTitle of Sufi leaders in Central Asia.
- ViditA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- PanchamiThe fifth day (tithi) of the lunar fortnight (paksha) in the Hindu calendar.
- panthAn Indian religious tradition established by a guru.
- DronaThe royal guru to Kauravas and Pandavas in Mahabharata.
- SrimatiA Gandharva maid in Ramayana.
- PramilaA female given name from Sanskrit
- RachanaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- prasadaA religious offering, usually of vegetarian food consumed by worshippers after worship, in Hinduism and Sikhism.
- DeveshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SnehA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- dikshaThe giving of a mantra or initiation by the guru in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
- KesariThe father of Lord Hanuman.
- PratimaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- SiddhantaThe established and accepted view of any particular school within Indian philosophy.
- namaskarThe use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste.
- AksharA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- JyotsnaA female given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.
- PhaniA male given name from Sanskrit.
- Varahathe third avatar of Vishnu