Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

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

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