* Cārvāka ( Sanskrit: च ा र ् व ा क ) ( atheist ) philosophy.

Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ब ु द ् ध ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent,

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

Foundation of the Maurya Empire ( Sanskrit: म ौ र ् य र ा जव ं श, Maurya Rājavanśha ) which was geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. It was one of the world's largest empires in its time.

The Gupta Empire ( Sanskrit: ग ु प ् त र ा जव ं श, Gupta Rājavanśha ) was an Ancient Indian empire which existed approximately from 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.

In the Shaivite tradition, the Shri Rudram ( Sanskrit श ् र ि र ु द ् रम ्), to which the Chamakam ( चमकम ्) is added by scriptural tradition, is a Hindu stotra dedicated to Rudra ( an epithet of Shiva ), taken from the Yajurveda ( TS 4. 5, 4. 7 ).

* Sanskrit Mitra ( म ि त ् र ः), found in the Rig Veda.

The name derives from the Sanskrit श ् र ी ल ं क ा śrī ( venerable ) and lankā ( island ), the name of the island in the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

The word itself is from Sanskrit " Samudra ", ( सम ु द ् र ), meaning " gathering together of waters, sea or ocean ".

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.

* Hindi: Rājkumār ( र ा जक ु म ा र ), Kũwar ( क ुँ वर ), both from Sanskrit rāj ( royal ) + kumāra ( a boy )

In the Hindu religion, Thursday is Guruvaar ( ग ु र ु व ा र ), from Guru, the Sanskrit name for Jupiter, the largest of planets.

The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा वत ा रस ू त ् र ; ) is a sutra of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

The writer Bharata Muni, in his work on dramatic theory A Treatise on Theatre ( Sanskrit: Nātyaśāstra, न ा ट ् य श ा स ् त ् र, c. 200 BCE – 200 CE ), identified several rasas ( such as pity, anger, disgust and terror ) in the emotional responses of audiences for the Sanskrit drama of ancient India.

* Thai ( spelled chanthr but pronounced because the th and the r are silent ) " moon " ( Sanskrit चन ् द ् र candra )

In India, the birch ( Sanskrit: भ ु र ् ज, bhurj ) holds great historical significance in the culture of North India, where the thin bark coming off in winter was extensively used as writing paper.

Birch paper ( Sanskrit: भ ु र ् ज पत ् र, bhurj pətrə ) is exceptionally durable and was the material used for many ancient Indian texts.

The word " satrap " is from Avestan roots which is in turn derived from Sanskrit word Kṣatriya क ् षत ् र ि य.

For example, while the vowel ū is written with the diacritic in क ू kū, it has its own letter ऊ in ऊक ūka and ( in Hindi but not Sanskrit ) कऊ kaū.

Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Marathi and Sanskrit have the term ( Devanagari: म ा त ृ भ ू म ी), literally " Mother-Earth ".

Pūjā or alternative transliteration Pooja, ( Devanagari: प ू ज ा) () ( Sanskrit: reverence, honour, adoration, or worship ) is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests.

A stupa ( from Sanskrit: m., स ् त ू प, stūpa, Sinhalese: ස ් ථ ූ පය, Pāli: थ ु प " thūpa ", literally meaning " heap ") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha, used by Buddhists as a place of worship.

The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra ( Sanskrit: व ि मलक ी र ् त ि न ि र ् द े श स ू त ् र ), or Vimalakīrti Sūtra, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtra.

In 1981, the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies published a Sanskrit edition of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, entitled Āryavimalakīrtinirdeśo Nāma Mahāyānasūtram ( आर ् यव ि मलक ी र ् त ि न ि र ् द े श ो न ा म मह ा य ा नस ू त ् रम ्).

The ( Sanskrit: स ु वर ् णप ् रभ ा स ो त ् तमस ू त ् र े न ् द ् रर ा ज: ; IAST: suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājaḥ ) ( Chinese: 金光明經 ; pinyin: jīn guāng míng jīng ; Korean: 금광명경 ; Japanese: Konkōmyō Kyō ), ( Tibetan: གས ེ ར ་ འ ོ ད ་ དམ ་ པ ་ མད ོ་ ས ྡེ འ ི་ དབང ་ པ ོ འ ི་ ར ྒྱ ལ ་ པ ོ འ ི་ མད ོ། Wiley: gser ' od dam pa mdo sde ' i dbang po ' i rgyal po ' i mdo ) is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism.

* Sanskrit: वज ् रच ् छ े द ि क ा प ् रज ् ञ ा प ा रम ि त ा स ू त ् र, Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra

Muladhara ( Sanskrit: म ू ल ा ध ा र, Mūlādhāra ) is one of the seven primary chakras according to Hindu tantrism.

Manipura ( Sanskrit: मण ि प ू र, ), called " city of jewels ", is the third primary chakra according to Hindu tradition.

* र ू प ् यकम ् ( rūpyakam ) in Sanskrit

The name " rufiyaa " is derived from the Hindi word rupiyaa ( र ु पय ा), ultimately from Sanskrit rupya ( र ू प ् य ; wrought silver ).

Also called the Lotus Sutra, White Lotus Sutra, Sutra of the White Lotus, or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ; ( Sanskrit: सद ् धर ् मप ु ण ् डर ी कस ू त ् र Saddharmapundarīka-sūtra ; 妙法蓮華經 Cn: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng ; Jp: Myōhō Renge Kyō.

It is known as शहत ू त in Hindi, Tuta in Sanskrit, Tuti in Marathi and Toot in Persian language ( Farsi ), Iran.

Subhūti ( Sanskrit: स ु भ ू त ि; ) was one of the Ten Great Śrāvakas of Śākyamuni Buddha, and foremost in the understanding of emptiness.

Buddharūpa ( ब ु द ् धर ू प, literally, " Form of the Awakened One ") is the Sanskrit and Pali term used in Buddhism for statues or models of the Buddha.

Avadhuta ( अवध ू त ) is a Sanskrit term from some Indian religions or Dharmic Traditions referring to a type of mystic or saint who is beyond egoic-consciousness, duality and common worldly concerns and acts without consideration for standard social etiquette.

The Shiva Sutras ( IAST: ; Devanāgarī: ) or Māheshvara Sutras ( Devanāgarī: म ा ह े श ् वर स ू त ् र ा ण ि) are fourteen verses that organize the phonemes of the Sanskrit language as referred to in the of, the foundational text of Sanskrit grammar.

Halāhala ( Hindi हल ा हल ) or Kalakootam ( Sanskrit क ा लक ू ट ं ) is the name of a poison ( as per Hindu mythology ) created from the sea when Devas ( Gods ) and Asuras ( Demons ) churned the sea ( see Samudra manthan ) in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality.

Citrullus colocynthis, commonly known as the colocynth, bitter apple, bitter cucumber, desert gourd, egusi, or vine of Sodom ( Sanskrit: Gavakshi गव ा क ् ष ी, Indarvaruni इ ं द ् रव ा र ू ण ी), is a viny plant native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia, especially Turkey ( especially in regions such as İzmir ), Nubia, and Trieste.

The name puri derives from the Sanskrit word प ू र ि क ा ( pūrikā ), from प ु र ( pura ) " filled ".

Kumkum ( Sanskrit क ु ङ ् क ु मम ् kuṅkumam, Marathi क ुं क ू kunku, Bengali ক ু মক ু ম kumkum Tamil க ு ங ் க ு மம ் kunkumam, Telugu క ుం క ు మ kumkuma, Kannada ಕ ುಂ ಕ ು ಮ Kumkuma, Malayalam ക ു ങ ് ക ു മ ം Kungkumam ), is a powder used for social and religious markings in Hinduism.

* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.

Prakrit ( also transliterated as Pracrit ) ( Sanskrit:, Shauraseni: प ा उद, Telugu: ప ్ ర ా క ృ త, Maharashtri: प ा उअ ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

More likely, pitdah is derived from Sanskrit words ( प ी त pit

However, it is believed instead to be derived from an Indo-Iranian word meaning " white-yellow, pale "; in Sanskrit, this word's reflex was प ा ण ् डर pāṇḍara, which was derived from प ु ण ् डर ी क puṇḍárīka ( tiger, among other things ), then borrowed into Greek.

Irish athair, Tocharian A pācar, B pācer, Lithuanian patinas ' male animal '), akin to Latin pater, akin to Ancient Greek πατήρ ( patēr ), akin to Sanskrit प ि त ृ ( pitṛ ).

The Guardians of the Directions ( Sanskrit: द ि क ् प ा ल, Dikpāla ) are the deities who rule the specific directions of space according to Hinduism and

In some English translations of Journey to the West, the title is rendered as Tripitaka ( Sanskrit: Tripiṭaka ; Devanagari: त ् र ि प ि टक ), which is the original Sanskrit term for the Sanzangjing.

In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava ( Sanskrit: प ा ण ्‍ डव ; also, Pandawa ) are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu (), by his two wives Kunti and Madri.

In some lineages of Hinduism, Purusha ( Sanskrit, प ु र ु ष " man, Cosmic man ", in Sutra literature also called " man ") is the " Self " which pervades the universe.

A Pratyekabuddha ( Sanskrit: प ् रत ् य े क ब ु द ् ध ) or Paccekabuddha ( Pāli: पच ् च े कब ु द ् ध ), literally " a lone buddha ", " a buddha on their own " or " a private buddha ", is one of three types of enlightened beings according to some schools of Buddhism.

The word Suphan originates from the Sanskrit word Suvarna ( Devanagari: स ु वर ् ण ), meaning gold, and the word buri from Sanskrit Purī ( Devanagari: प ु र ी), meaning town or city.

For instance, in the Purusha sukta of the Rigveda, Purusha ( Sanskrit, प ु र ु ष " man ," or " Cosmic Man ") is sacrificed by the devas from the foundation of the world — his mind is the Moon, his eyes are the Sun, and his breath is the wind.