English words from Sanskrit
- adhyasaThe human habit of superimposition, or false attribution of properties of one thing on another thing.
- adigarThe head man of a rural village.
- AdithyaAny of a group of solar deities, the sons of Aditi and Kashyapa.
- Advaita VedantaA school of Vedanta philosophy that teaches the nonduality of Atman and Brahman.
- AdvaitinAn adherent or follower of Advaita Vedanta.
- AdvaitismThe "non-dualist" school of Vedanta founded by the 8th-century Indian philosopher Sankaracharya.
- AghoriA tribe of Hindu ascetics who are or were thought to eat the flesh of corpses.
- AgrajA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AgrajaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AgyaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ahamkaraAttachment to one's ego.
- AhilyaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AiravataName of the mythological white elephant, mount of Indra.
- Ajatashatruan epithet of Yudhishthira
- Ajatshatruan epithet of Yudhishthira
- AjishA male given name from Malayalam used in India.
- AkankshaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AkanshaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Akasagarbhaa bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
- akashvania gift or message from heaven, a divine message, an oracle
- AkhandA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Akhand BharatUndivided India; a proposed superstate where the other countries of South Asia are joined into India.
- AkritiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Akṣayamatia bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- AkshatA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- akshauhinian army consisting of ten anikinis, or 21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot
- AkshayakumaraThe youngest son of Ravana, who was slain by Lord Hanuman.
- Akshayapatrainexhaustible vessel.
- AkutiAkuti, the daughter of Manu and Shatarupa, the wife of Prajapati Ruchi, and the mother of Yajna and Dakshina.
- AlakanandaName of the river Ganges (of earth), when it flows through devaloka.
- amalakaA segmented or notched stone disk, usually with ridges on the rim, that sits on the top of a Hindu temple's shikhara or main tower.
- AmavasyaA new moon in the Hindu calendar.
- Ambalikaan epithet of the goddess Parvati.
- AmitābhaIn Pure Land Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the name of the principal buddha regarded as of celestial origin.
- amreditaA compound consisting of the same word repeated with the first occurrence accented, used to express repetitiveness or distributivity.
- AmritāA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Amrita NadiIn yogic belief, a metaphysical channel that connects certain vital areas of the human body.
- AmshumanA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnandiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Anantacaritraa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- AnantagiriA hill range in the Eastern ghats.
- AnanyāA female given name from Sanskrit.
- AnasuyaName of the wife of sage Atri. She had three sons: Dattatreya, Durvasa and Chandra.
- anekantavadaThe doctrine of many-sidedness, specifically that reality and truth have multiple aspects and demand diverse points of view.
- AngadaSon of Vali, King of Kishkindha in Ramayana.
- AnganaThe wife of Sarvabhauma, an Ashtadiggaja guarding the northern quarter.
- AngirasA Vedic Saptarishi and Manasaputra of Brahma.
- Aniruddhthe grandson of Lord Krishna
- AnirvanA male given name from Sanskrit. One of the common Hindu names for boys.
- aniṭof a root, not seṭ, not having a final i sound
- AnjanāThe mother of Lord Hanuman and wife of Kesari, also know as Anjani.
- AnjaneyuluA male given name from Sanskrit, used commonly in India.
- AnjaniAnother name of Anjana, the mother of Hanuman and wife of Kesari.
- AnkitaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- annaprashanaA Hindu rite of passage marking an infant's first intake of food other than milk.
- AnshA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- antarakalpaA subdivision of a kalpa (aeon), or an intermediate period between two major kalpas.
- antevasinA disciple dwelling in or near the house of the teacher.
- anubandhaCharacters added before or after a Sanskrit stem (or other morpheme), used as marker to convey a grammatical operation such as accentuation or substitution, and dropped once the word is fully formed.
- AnubhavA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnubhutiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- anudāttaLow-pitch accent (grave), which precedes the acute udātta, in Vedic Sanskrit.
- AnujaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnukritiA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- anumaranaThe ancient Indian practice of voluntary death by self-immolation by Hindu widows after the death of the husband.
- AnunayA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AnupamāThe wife of Kumuda, the Ashtadiggaja of southwest direction.
- anusvaraA diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.
- anuvrttiIn the Paninian grammar of Sanskrit, the "carrying over" of earlier-described rules into subsequent contexts, without explicitly restating those rules.
- ApabhramshaThe languages of the final stage of Middle Indo-Aryan, spoken during the 6th – 13th centuries CE.
- apadravyaA glans penis piercing where jewellery passes vertically through the urethra.
- aparigrahaThe Jainist principle of greedlessness, or not having unnecessary possessions.
- apauruṣeyānot of human origin or authorship; impersonal, authorless, referring to the Vedas.
- ApekshaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- AradhnaA female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ardhamandapaA half-open entrance porch on a Hindu temple.
- ArpitA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- ArpitaA female given name from Sanskrit.
- ArunimA male given name from Hindi used in India.
- ArvindaA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Aryadevaa bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- Āryamargaa Buddhist work
- AryavartaA historical region covering northern part of Indian subcontinent and Indo-Gangetic plain.
- asavaA fermented juice used medicinally.
- Ashoka VatikaThe garden in Lanka where Sita was held captive by Ravana in the Ramayana.
- AshtadhyayiA grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.
- Ashtadiggajaa great elephant, a world elephant
- ashtamangalaA suite of eight auspicious symbols.
- AshtamiThe eighth day (tithi) in the fortnight (paksha) of the Hindu lunar calendar.
- AshtavakraName of a vedic sage, a disciple of Uddalaka and son of Sujata.
- AshvamedhaOne of the most important Vedic sacrificial rituals related to kings, and name of the Rigvedic hymns 1.162-163 which deal with horse sacrifice.
- ashvatthaSynonym of sacred fig.
- AshwatthamaA hero in Mahabharata; son of Drona.
- AsikniAsikni, Chenab (a river in India and Pakistan).
- AstadiggajaA term applied to the eight male elephants standing guard over the eight zones.
- astikaThe supreme authority of the Vedas.
- ĀstīkaA rishi, son of Jaratkaru and Manasa, who saved the naga race from being destroyed in King Janamejaya's Sarpa Satra yajna.
- AśvinsTwin gods of medicine, health, dawn and the sciences.
- AswayujaThe seventh month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
- AtharvA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.