Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

patra: [one who is fit to receive; recipient].
patvari (Patwary) [Hind.]: [a person who keeps the record of village lands, etc.]
pauranika (Pauranic, Puranic): [relating to the Puranas].
pavitra: a strainer. [Ved.]
pavitram paramam: the supreme purity. [Gita 10.12]
pesah: form. [Ved.]
pinda: the symbolic food offered to the Fathers in the pauranika funeral and memorial rites.
pisaca (Pishacha): demon; a [hostile] being of the lower vital.
pisacavat: as the unbound vital being, the divine maniac or else the divine demoniac.
pitamaha: grandsire.
pitarah (Pitris): Fathers, Manes; Fathers who have gone before and discovered the supraphysical worlds. [Puranas]: Ancestors to whom the tarpana is given.; pitrn [accusative plural], to the divinised Ancestors. [Gita 9.25]
pitaro manusyah: the human fathers. [Ved.]
pithasthana: [one of fifty-one places consecrated to the worship of Parvati or, by extension, any place sacred to the Mother].
Pitriloka: see pitrloka
Pitris: see pitarah
pitrloka (Pitriloka): the world of the Fathers.
Pitriyan: see pitryana
pitrn: see under pitarah
pitrya dhih: the ancestral Thought. [Ved.]
pitryana (Pitriyan): the road of the Fathers, supposed to lead to inferior worlds attained by the Fathers who still belong to the evolution in the Ignorance.
Poorna Yoga: see purna yoga
poosta: see posta
posa: increase; the growth of all possessions internal or external in the life of the individual. [Ved.]
posta (poosta) [Hind.]: [a debilitating drink, the infusion of opium-poppy heads].
Potr (Potri): the purifying priest. [Ved.]
prabhava: birth.
prabhu: the Lord; [Ved.]: becoming, coming into existence in front of the consciousness, at a particular point as a particular object of experience.
pracetas: conscious thinker (seems to correspond to the Vedantic prajnana). [Ved.]; pracetah [nominative, feminine], she who has the perceptive knowledge.
pra cetayati ketuna: makes conscious by the ray of intuition. [RV 1.3.12]
pradhana: [in samkhya philosophy]: basis; first substance, first state or arrangement of matter and its essential principle.
pradhanyatah: in some of (My) principal pre-eminences. [Gita 10.19]
Pradyumna: [a name of the god of Love, a son of Krsna].
Prahlada: [a daitya, famous as a devotee of Visnu].
praiti: goes forward. [Kena 1.1]
praja: offspring.
prajapati: the father of creatures. prajapatayah (Prajapatis) [plural], original progenitors.
prajna: the all-wise Intelligence.
prajna: the Self situated in deep sleep [susupti], the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge (prajna).
prajnana: apprehending consciousness; the consciousness that cognizes all things as objects confronting its observation; in the divine mind it is knowledge regarding things as their source, possessor and witness.
prajna prasrta purani: Wisdom that went forth from the beginning. [Svet. 4.18]
prajna purani: [ancient Wisdom]. [see the preceding]
prajna-purusa: the Supreme Intelligence who is the Lord and dwells in the sleep-state holding all things in a seed of dense consciousness.
prakamya: [one of the astasiddhis]: absolute keenness of the mind and senses.; prakamyam [nominative]
prakasa (Prakasha): [light]; enlightenment, clear radiance; [manifestation].
Prakrit: see Prakrta
Prakriti: see prakrti
prakrta: brought forward.
Prakrta (Prakrit): [a name given to any of the popular dialects derived from or otherwise cognate with Sanskrit]
prakrti (Prakriti): "working out"; Nature; Nature-Force; Nature-Soul; executive or working force.; prakrtayah [plural], natural powers.; prakrtim [accusative]
prakrti laya: absorption in prakrti.
prakrtim: see under prakrti
prakrtim mamikam: into My (divine) nature. [Gita 9.7]
prakrtim me param: My supreme nature. [Gita 7.5]
prakrtim svam: own nature. [see the two following]
prakrtim svam adhisthaya ... atmamayaya: standing upon My own nature ... by My self-maya. [Gita 4.6]
prakrtim svam avastabhya: leaning upon My own nature... [Gita 9.8]
prakrtir jiva-bhuta: Nature which has become the jiva. [cf. Gita 7-5]
prakrtistvam niyoksyati: Nature shall yoke thee (to thy work). [Gita 18.59]
prakrto janah: the ordinary man.
prak sarira-vimoksanat: before the release from the body. [Gita 5.23]
pralaya: 1. the end of a cycle of aeons; temporary disintegration of a universal form of existence and all the individual forms which move in its rounds.; 2. physical death.
pralayam yati deha-bhrt: the soul bearing the body comes to a pralaya. [Gita 14.14]
pramada: [negligence, carelessness; error].
pramana: [one of the sadanga]: proportion, arrangerlent of line and mass, design, harmony, perspective.
pramatha: [one of a class of demons attending on Siva].
pramathanatha: lord of the demoniac, [Siva].
prana: 1. Life-energy; life; the breath of life.; 2. the five pranas: the five workings of the life-force: [prana (see definition 3 below), apana, vydna, samana, udana].; 3. [one of the five pranas]: it moves in the upper part of the body and is pre-eminently the breath of life, because it brings the universal force into the physical system and gives it there to be distributed.
pranakosa: vital or nervous sheath; nervous body.
pranama (Pranam): [bowing, prostration, obeisance].
pranamaya purusa: soul in life; the (true) vital being.
pranapratistha: [infusion of life into an image or idol].
pranasakti (Prana Shakti): 1. [life-energy].; 2. [the full power (and perfection) of the life-force].; pranasaktih [nominative]
pranava: the basic syllable om, which is the foundation of all the creative sounds of the revealed word.
pranava japa: [repetition of the syllable om].
pranayama: the government and control of the respiration; regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.
pranam brahma: [accusative of the following].
prano brahma: Life as the original reality, Life as the great Eternal [brahman] [Tait. 3.3]
prapadyantenyadevatah: they resort to other godheads. [Gita 7.20]
prapanca: phenomena.
prapya punyakrtam lokan usitva sasvatih samah: [having attained to the world of the righteous and having dwelt there for immemorial years]. [Gita 6.41]
prarabdha (karma): mechanical action of the instruments of the prakrti continuing by force of old impulsion and habit or continued initiation of past energy.
prasada (Prasad): 1. an illumined ease and clarity.; 2. [food offered to a deity or to a spiritual teacher; this same food distributed to devotees as a blessing].
prasannata: clear purity and gladness.
prasantih: a general state of peace and calm.; prasantir [ =prasantih]
prasava: (self-)production.
prathamo manota dhiyah: the first thinker of the Thought. [RV 6.1.1]
pratibhanam: genius, a reflection or luminous response in the mind to higher ideation.
pratibodha: realisation; jnana of experience.
pratidanam: [giving in return].
pratijanihi: [know thou for certain]. [Gita 9.31]
prati samudram syandamanah: [flowing towards the ocean].
pratistha: support, foundation, pedestal.
pratisya: by purposeful impulsion. [RV 10.129.4]
pratyahara: the drawing inward of the senses from their objects.
pratyaksa: (knowledge of that which is) before the eyes, direct knowledge.
pratyaksadarsana: [seeing as before one's eyes; direct revelation].
pratyaksa-drsti: direct sight.
pratyaksam brahma: the manifest and evident Eternal [brahman]. [Tait. 1.1; 1.12]
pravesa: entrance.
praviliyante karmani: works vanish and are dissolved. [cf. Gita 4.23]
praviliyate: disappears completely. [Gita 4.23]
pravisya: having entered.
pravisya yah pratirupo babhuva: [that which] having entered, shapes itself to the forms it meets. [cf. Katha 2.2.9]
Pravritti: see pravrtti
pravrtta: [brought forward into the movement; engaged in action and works].
pravrtti (Pravritti): the moving out and forward; the impetus towards action and works; the soul's evolution into the action.
pravrtti: [the path of pravrtti].
prayas: delight; the outflowing of mayas as the delight and pleasure of the soul in all objects and beings. [Ved.]
prayopavesana: fasting for a long time.
prema: love.
premamayi Radha: [Radha full of love].
prema-samarthya: power of [capacity for] love.
prema-yoga: [yoga of love].
prerana: [command; an impelling to].
preta: [a spirit of a dead person, ghost].
preyas: the pleasant.
Prishni: see prsni
priti: pleasure; ecstasy; love.
pritih: [nominative]
Prithivi, Prithvi: see prthvi
priya: pleasant; the pleasant; [Ved.]: love.; priyam [nominative]
prksa: [material sense]: "delicacy" or satisfying food; [psychological sense]: satisfaction, fullness, delight, pleasure. [Ved.]
Prsni (Prishni): dappled; used both of the Bull, the supreme Male, and of the Cow, the female Energy. [Ved.]; Prsnih [nominative]

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