Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

dhataham visvatomukhah: I am the Ordainer whose faces are on all sides. [Gita 10.33]
dhenu: [Ved.]: "fosterer", "nourisher", fostering cow; cow.; dhenavah [plural]
dhi: thought power, intellect, the understanding that holds and arranges.; dhiyah [plural], thoughts.
dhira: steadfast (in the gaze of one's thought); the strong and wise soul.; dhirah [plural]
dhiras tatra na muhyati: the strong and wise soul is not perplexed, troubled or moved by them. [Gita 2.13]
dhisana: intellect, understanding. [Ved.]
dhiyah: see under dhi
dhiyam ghrtacim: bright understanding, an intellect full of a rich and bright mental activity. [RV 1.2.7].
dhobi [Hind.]: [a washerman].
dhoti (Dhoty) [Hind.]: [a cloth to cover the lower body and legs, worn by Hindu men].
dhrti: steadfastness, persistence of will.; dhrtya [instrumental], by a firm and steady will.
dhruvam: permanence, the Permanent.
dhruvam adhruvesu: permanence in things that pass. [Katha 2.1.2]
dhumra: smoke-coloured.
dhyana: meditation, contemplation; mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge.
dhyana-yoga-paro nityam: [always resorting to the yoga of meditation]. [Gita 18.52]
dhyani: [one who practises dhyana].
dhyani buddha: [the meditating Buddha].
diksa: [initiation].
disah: regions.
Diti: the divided being, the separative consciousness, the Finite; mother of the Titans; [same as Danu]. [Ved.]
divah prthivyah: [of] Heaven and Earth: the mental and physical consciousness in man. [Ved.]
divaspade: in the seat of Heaven. [Ved.]
divasputra: son of Heaven. [Ved.]
divo napata: [two] sons of Heaven. [Ved.]
divo rocanani: the (three) luminous worlds of svar. [Ved.]
divya atma-vibhutayah: divine self-manifestation in thy sovereign power of becoming. [Gita 10.16]
divya caksu (Divya Chakshu): divine eye.
divya janma: the divine birth. Avatarhood.; divyam janma [nominative]
divyam karma: divine works.
divyam purusam: [to the divine purusa].
divya navagvah: the heavenly Nine-rayed ones. [Ved.]
dosa: [defect]; twilight.
drasta: seer.
dravyayajna: material and physical offering.
Drishti: see drsti
drlha: strong, firm; the strong place. [Ved.]
drsta: seen.
drsti (Drishti): seeing, sight, vision; revelation, revelatory knowledge; direct vision of the Truth; direct inner seizing or a penetrating and enveloping luminous contact of the spiritual consciousness.
drti: a skin; literally a thing cut or torn (a partial formation out of the Truth-Consciousness). [Ved.]
druhah: hurts or those who hurt. [Ved.]
duhkha: sorrow.
duhkha-bhoga: [experience of sorrow].
duhkham aptum: difficult to attain. [Gita 5.6]
duhkham avapyate: [is attained with difficulty]. [see the following]
duhkham dehavadbhih: [with difficulty by embodied souls]. [see the following]
duhkham dehavadbhir avapyate: [is attained with difficulty by embodied souls]. [Gita 12.5]
duhkha-samyoga-viyogam: the divorce of (the mind's) marriage with grief. [Gita 6.23]
duhkhavada: the gospel of sorrow.
dushsvapnyam: the evil dream (the false consciousness of that which is not the rtam). [RV 5.82.4]
duracara: [bad behaviour, ill conduct].
duratyaya: hard to get beyond. [Gita 7.14]
durga: the path beset by manifold dangers and sufferings and difficulties. [Ved.]
Durga: the goddess who is the energy of Siva.
durgam pathastat: difficult of going is that path. [Katha 1.3.14]
duritam: wrong going; error or stumbling, sin and perversion; calamity, suffering, all ill result of error and ill doing. [Ved.]; duritani [plural]
duta: envoy.
dvaita (Dwaita): dualism; dualistic vedanta.
dvaitadvaita (Dwaitadwaita): [dualism-non-dualism].
dvandva (Dwandwa): 1. a pair (of contraries).; 2. [Sanskrit grammar: the dual compound].
dvandva-moha: the delusion of the dualities. [Gita 7.28]
dvandvatita: beyond the dualities. [Gita 4.22]
dvapara (yuga) (Dwapara): [the third of the four yugas].
dvau bhutasargau: two creations of beings. [Gita 16.6]
dvavimau purusau: [these two purusas]. [see the following]
dvavimau purusau loke ksaras caksara eva ca: there are two purusas in the world, the ksara and the aksara. [Gita 15. 16]
dvesa: disliking, repulsion.
dvesamsi: hostile things, things that attack and divide. [Ved.]
dvisah: foes; hostile powers; powers of undelight.
Dvita (Dwita): the "second" or "double"; the god or rsi of the second plane of the human ascent, that of the Life-Force; the Life-Soul. [Ved.]
Dwaita: see dvaita
Dwaitadwaita: see dvaitadvaita
Dwandwa: see dvandva
Dwapara: see dvapara
Dwita: see dvita
dyau: Heaven (the pure mental consciousness). [Ved.]; dyauh [nominative]
Dyauspita: King of the heavens. [Ved.]
dyumatim isam: the luminous impulsion. [cf. RV 7.5.8]
dyumato vipran: luminous sages. [cf. RV 6.17.14]
ei muhurte ei ksane [Beng.]: [this moment, this instant].
eka: one;; Eka: one or single, the purusa of the material consciousness. [Ved.]; ekah [nominative, masculine]; ekam [nominative, neuter]
ekabhaktih: single devotion. [Gita 7.17]
ekah: see under eka
ekah acalah sanatanah: one, motionless, without beginning or end.
ekam: see under eka
ekam bahudha: one... in many ways. [see the following]
ekam bijam bahudha saktiyogat: one seed, manifold by the yoga of might. [cf. Svet. 4.1 and 6.12]
ekam bijam bahudha yah karoti: [who] fashions one seed in many ways. [Svet. 6.12]
ekamevadvitiyam: [one with out a second]. [Chand. 6.2.1]
ekam sad vipra bahudha vadanti: the Existent is one, the sages express it variously. [RV 1.164.46]
ekam sat: one Existence. [see the preceding]
ekam sat bahudha: the Existent is one... variously. [see the preceding]
ekatma-pratyaya-saram: Whose substance is the certitude of One Self. [Mand. 7]
ekatvam anupasyatah: [of him] who sees everywhere oneness. [Isa 7]
ekatvena prthaktvena bahudha visvatomukham: [in oneness, in separateness, manifoldly, in faces fronting everywhere]. [Gita 9.15]
eko vasi sarvabhutantaratma: one controlling Spirit within all creatures. [Katha 2.2.12]
esa brahmisthitih: [this is brahmi sthiti]. [Gita 2.72]
esa dharmah sanatanah: this is the eternal law.
etad vai tat: this truly is that; this is the God of your seeking. [Katha 2 passim]
etad yonini bhutani (sarvani): this is the womb of (all) beings. [Gita 7.6]
etam vibhutim mama yo vetti: [he who knows this My pervading lordship]. [Gita 10.7]
etau vai mahimanau: these two are (his) greatnesses. [Brhad. 1.1.2]
eva: indeed, verily.
Evaya Marut: a name of Visnu. [Ved.]
gabhasti: 1. a ray of the sun.; 2. forearm. [Ved.]
gadi [Beng.]: [throne, position of authority].
gadya-chanda [Beng.]: a prose poem.
gah: cows, rays of light. [Ved.]
gahana: thick; dense. [see the following]
gahana karmano gatih: thick and tangled is the way of works. [Gita 4.17]
gambhirya: [depth; gravity, solemnity].
gana: 1. a subordinate minister (of a devata).; 2. republic.
Ganapati: same as Ganesa.
gandha: odour.
gandharva: [Ved.]: Lord of the host of delight. [Later: a celestial musician].
Gandiva (Gandiv): [the name of Arjuna's bow].
Ganesa (Ganesha): the devata of spiritual knowledge; the Power that removes obstacles by the force of knowledge.
ganika: [courtesan], Hetaira.
gantasi nirvedam: thou shalt become indifferent. [see the following]
gantasi nirvedam srotavyasya strutasya ca: thou shalt become indifferent to Scripture heard or that which thou hast yet to hear. [Gita 2.52]
garima: [one of the astasiddhis: the power of becoming heavy at will].

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