A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From A to Crore.

Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "enlightenment" or "kundalini" are hyperlinked to archives further explaining the term. At the corresponding archive you will also find articles related to the term.

aryans:

the migrant invaders of india from approximately 1500 b.c; people of spiritual values

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Ardhanariswara (Sanskrit). Lit., "the bi-sexual lord". Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the Kabalistic Sephira, Adam Kadmon, &c.

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Anuttara (Sanskrit). Unrivalled, peerless. Thus Anuttara Bodhi means unexcelled or unrivalled intelligence", Anuttara Dharma, unrivalled law or religion, &c.

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Pingala (Sanskrit). The great Vedic authority on the Prosody and chhandas of the Vedas. Lived several centuries B.C.

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Samvat (Sanskrit). The name of an Indian chronological era, supposed to have commenced fifty-seven years B.C.

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Jain:

Jain. Adherent of Jainism, Indian religion traceable to Mahavira of the 6th century B.C.

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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura:

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura: the spiritual master of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

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Patanjali (Sanskrit). The founder of the Yoga philosophy. The date assigned to him by the Orientalists is 200 B.C.; and by the Occultists nearer to 700 than 600 B.C. At any rate he was a contemporary of Panini.

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Manojava (Sanskrit) Swift as thought; a name of Indra in the sixth manvantara, which corresponds with the sixth manu of this round, the seed-manu of globe C, or again with the third root-race of this round.

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Avarasaila Sangharama (Sanskrit). Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihara (monastery) in Dhana-kstchaka, according to Eitel, "built 600 B.C., and deserted A.D. 600".

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Panini (Sanskrit). A celebrated grammarian, author of the famous work called Paniniyama; a Rishi, supposed to have received his work from the god Siva. Ignorant of the epoch at which he lived, the Orientalists place his date between 600 B.C. and 300 A.D.

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Prajapatis (Sanskrit). Progenitors; the givers of life to all on this Earth. They are seven and then ten - corresponding to the seven and ten Kabbalistic Sephiroth; to the Mazdean Amesha-Spentas, &c. Brahma the creator, is called Prajapati as the synthesis of the Lords of Being.

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Rajagriha (Sanskrit). A city in Magadha famous for its conversion to Buddhism in the days of the Buddhist kings. It was their residence from Bimbisara to Asoka, and was the seat of the first Synod, or Buddhist Council, held 510 B.C..

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Trividya (Sanskrit). Lit., "the three knowledges" or sciences".

These are the three fundamental axioms in mysticism  -

(a) the impermanency of all existence, or Anitya;

(b) suffering and misery of all that lives and is, or Dukha; and

(c) all physical, objective existence as evanescent and unreal as a water-bubble in a dream, or Anatma.

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Kanishka (Sanskrit). A King of the Tochari, who flourished when the third Buddhist Synod met in Kashmir, i.e., about the middle of the last century B.C., a great patron of Buddhism, he built the finest stupas or dagobas in Northern India and Kabulistan.

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Shankara: Shankaracharya; Adi (the first) Shankaracharya: The great reformer and re-establisher of Vedic Religion in India around 300 B.C. He is the unparalleled exponent of Advaita (Non-Dual) Vedanta. He also reformed the mode of monastic life and founded (or regenerated) the ancient Swami Order.

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Aryan:

Aryan (Aaryan). (a) Literally noble. (b) Follower of Vedic or spiritual path. (c) Ancient dwellers of India who composed the Rig-veda; the chief tribe was that of the Bharathas.

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Nagarjuna:

Nagarjuna (Naagaarjuna). Classical Indian medical knowledge is called ayur-veda (science of long life); the two chief traditions are those of Atreya and Dhanvantari. Nagarjuna (2nd cent. B.C.) presented Dhanvantari's in Sushrutha samhitha.

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