Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature
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krta (Krita)
- effected or completed.
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krta (yuga) (Krita)
- [the first of the four yugas], the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished; [same as satya yuga].
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krtatma
- [he who is] perfected in the Self.
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krtsnakarmakrt
- a doer of all works. [Gita 4.18]
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krtsnakrt
- [doer of all (works)].
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krtsnavit
- the whole-knower. [Gita 3.29]
- krtsnavidah [plural]
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ksara (Kshara)
- mobile, mutable. [see ksara purusa]
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ksara-bhava
- mutable becoming; the changes of nature.
- ksaro bhavah [nominative] [Gita 8.4]
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ksarah sarvani bhutani
- the spirit of mutable things is all existences. [Gita 15.16]
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ksara purusa (Kshara Purusha)
- the soul in Nature; the spirit in the mutability of cosmic phenomenon and becoming.
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ksaro bhavah
- see under ksara-bhava
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ksatram (Kshatram)
- the dharma of the ksatriya.
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ksatrasakti (Kshatrashakti)
- [the (soul-)power of the ksatriya].
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ksatratejas, ksatratejah (Kshatratej, Kshatratejas)
- [the (soul-) power of the ksatriya].
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ksatriya (Kshatriya)
- a member of the second of the four orders (caturvarna): the man of power and action, ruler, warrior, leader, administrator; (symbolic idea): the Divine as power in man.
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ksatriyah tyaktajivitah
- men of power and action who have abandoned their life (for a cause).
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ksaya
- house, home. [Ved.]
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ksaya
- [loss, waste].
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ksetra
- field.
- ksetram [nominative]
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ksetrajna
- knower of the field.
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ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam
- knowledge of the field and its knower. [Gita 13.3]
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Kshetram
- see under ksetra
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Kshatrashakti
- see ksatrasakti
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Kshatratej(as)
- see ksatratejas
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Kshatriya
- see ksatriya
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ksina-kalmasah sarvabhuta-hite ratah
- they in whom the stains of sin are effaced and who are occupied in doing good to all creatures. [Gita 5.25]
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ksipamyajasram asubhan asurisveva yonisu
- [I cast the evil ones continually into Asuric births]. [Gita 16.19]
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ksiti
- dwelling place. [Ved.]
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ksobha
- disturbance.
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ksudram hrdayadaurbalyam
- small feebleness of heart. [Gita 2.3]
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kula
- clan-family.
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kuladharma
- social and religious law of the kula.
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kula-sangha
- communal assembly.
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kulavadhu
- a woman of a respectable family.
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kumara
- [boy], son.
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kumbhaka (Kumbhak)
- [in the practice of pranayama]: retention of the prana, cessation of the natural breathing.
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kundalini (sakti)
- the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within.
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kuru karma
- do action. [Gita 3.8]
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kuruksetra (Kurukshetra)
- [the battlefield where the Mahabharata war was fought], the field of doings, the field of human action.
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kurvannapi na lipyate
- acting, he is not affected. [Gita 5.7]
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kurvanneva
- doing works indeed. [Isa 2]
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ku-samskara [Beng.]
- a superstition.
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kutastha
- "the one on the summit"; the Self in the supracosmic consciousness; aksara purusa.
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Kutsa
- [a Vedic rsi associated with Indra].
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Kuvera
- [the god of riches, chief of the yaksas].
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laghima
- [one of the astasiddhis: lightness].
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laghu-guru
- [in Bengali prosody: a metrical system in which long and short vowels are given their full quantitative value; quantitative verse].
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laghuta
- lightness, swiftness and adaptability (of the nervous and physical being).
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laksana
- feature.
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lal-pagri [Hind.]
- ["red-turban": the police].
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Laksmi (Lakshmi, Laxmi, Luxmi)
- [the goddess of beauty and fortune]; Prosperity, Wealth.
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laphsi (laphsy) [Hind.]
- [a sort of gruel].
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lathi [Hind.]
- [staff, stick, club].
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lavanya
- beauty; [one of the sadanga]: the seeking of beauty and charm for the satisfaction of the aesthetic spirit.
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Laxmi
- see Laksmi
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laya
- dissolution, disappearance; annullation of the individual soul in the Infinite.
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lila
- play, game; the cosmic play.
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lilacatustaya (Lilachatushtaya)
- [the catustaya of the cosmic play (lila)].
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lilamaya
- [playful].
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lipsa
- [desire, longing]; reaching out.
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lobha
- [covetousness, cupidity, avarice, greed].
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loka
- world.
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loka-mahesvara
- the mighty lord of the worlds and peoples. [Gita 5.29]
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lokasamgraha
- the holding together of the race (in its cyclic evolution).
- lokasamgrahaya [dative]
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lokasamgraham evapi sampasyan kartum arhasi
- thou shouldst do works regarding also the holding together of the peoples. [Gita 3.20]
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lokasamgraharthaya
- for the keeping together and control of the world and its peoples. [cf. the preceding]
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Luxmi
- see Laksmi
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maccittah
- [with mind and heart (citta) given to Me].
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maccittah sarvadurgani matprasadat tarisyasi
- by giving yourself in heart and mind to Me, thou shalt cross over all difficulties and perils by My grace. [Gita 18.58]
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mada
- the wine of soma. [Ved.]
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madbhava
- My [i.e. Krsna's, the Divine's] nature and status of being.
- madbhavam [accusative]
- madbhavaya [dative] [Gita 13.19]
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mad-bhavah manasa jatah
- My mental becomings. [Gita 10.6]
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madbhava
- see under madbhava
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madbhavam agatah
- have arrived at My nature of being. [Gita 4.10]
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madbhavaya
- see under madbhava
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madhu
- honey, sweetness; the wine of soma.
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madhuman
- full of the sweetness of the honey.
- madhumantah [plural]
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madhuman urmih
- the wave of sweetness. [cf. RV 4.58.1]
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madhura (bhava)
- ["the sweet (sentiment)", in vaisnava bhakti. The relation between the lover and the Beloved].
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madhuscutah
- honey streaming. [Ved.]
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madhvadam purusam
- [the purusa who is] the eater of the honey of sweetness. [cf. Katha 2.1.5]
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madhyama [vak]
- [the middle gradation of speech].
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madhyama gatih
- [the middle status].
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madhyamika (Buddhists)
- [the name of a school of Buddhists].
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madireksana
- [a woman with] "eyes like wine".
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Mahabharata
- [an epic poem of over 100,000 slokas written principally by the sage vyasa and dealing centrally with the conflict between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, descendants of Bharata].
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mahabrahman
- [the great brahman].
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Mahadeva
- ["the great god", a name of Rudra or Siva].
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Mahadevi
- ["the great goddess", used as a name of Siva's wife Parvati or of other aspects of the Goddess].
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mahajan [Hind.]
- [a great or distinguished person; banker, moneylender].
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mahajanah
- [great men].
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Mahakala
- [a form of siva in his character of destroyer]; the spirit within, whose energy goes abroad in Kali and moulds the progress of the world and the destiny of the nations.
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Mahakali
- the goddess of the supreme strength, one of the four leading Powers and Personalities of the Mother.
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mahakaranam
- [the first cause].
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Mahalaksmi (Mahalakshmi)
- the goddess of supreme love and delight, one of the four leading Powers and Personalities of the Mother.
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mahamaya
- [the great maya].
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mahan
- see under mahat
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mahan arnavah
- the Great Water. [Ved.]
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mahan atma
- see under mahat atman
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mahapranasakti (Mahaprana Shakti)
- [Cosmic life-force].
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mahar
- see mahas
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maharajadhiraja (Maharajadhiraj)
- [great king of kings].
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maharloka
- world of large consciousness; the world of the superconscient Truth of things.
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maharsayah sapta purve
- the great rsis, the seven original seers. [Gita 10.6]
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maha
- "the Large"; the great world; the world of Truth; the supramental.
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mahasakti (Mahashakti)
- [the great sakti], the universal Mother.
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Mahasarasvati (Mahasaraswati)
- the goddess of divine skill and of the works of the Spirit; the Mother's Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order; one of the four leading Powers and Personalities of the Mother.
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mahasatyam
- [the great Truth], the highest truth.
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Mahasiva (Mahashiva)
- a greater manifestation than that ordinarily worshipped as Siva.
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mahas pathah
- the great path. [Ved.]
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mahat
- [in samkhya philosophy]: vast cosmic principle of Force; the idea-being of the Spirit; the essential and original matrix of consciousness (involved not evolved) in prakrti out of which individuality and formation come.
- mahan [nominative]
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mahat atman
- the Great Self, the Great Spirit.
- mahan atma [nominative]
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mahat brahman
- the underlying ideative spirit.
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mahati vinastih
- a great perdition. [Kena 2.5]
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mahatma
- a great soul.
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mahattva
- greatness.
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mahattva-bodhah
- [awareness of greatness].
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mahavakya
- the great word.
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mahayana
- ["the great vehicle", the name of a system of Buddhist teaching].
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Mahesvara (Maheshwara)
- the Almighty Lord.
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Mahesvari (Maheshwari)
- the goddess of the supreme knowledge, one of the four leading Powers and Personalities of the Mother.
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Mahi
- the Large, Great or Vast; she of the vastness of knowledge, who represents the Largeness (brhat) of the superconscient in us containing in itself the Truth (rtam); [also called Bharati]. [Ved.]
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mahima
- [one of the astasiddhis]: greatness.
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mahimanam asya
- his greatness. [cf. Mund. 3.1.2; Svet. 4.7]
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maho arnah
- the Great Water. [Ved.]
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mahut (mahout) [Beng.]
- [an elephant-driver].
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maidan [Hind.]
- [an open space, parade ground].
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main bhukha hun [Hind.]
- [I am hungry].
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maitrah karuna eva ca
- [friendly and compassionate]. [Gita 12.13]
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ma karmaphalaheturbhuh
- let not the fruits of thy works be thy motive. [Gita 2.47]
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