Vajra ( Devanagari: वज ् र ; Chinese: 金剛 jīngāng ; Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ། dorje ; Japanese: 金剛 kongo ) is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond.

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

The end of this cycle is called " Mukti " ( Sanskrit: म ु क ् त ि) and merging finally with God is " Moksha " ( Sanskrit: म ो क ् ष ) or salvation.

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 ).

From the Atharvaveda and in Classical Sanskrit, the stem is thematic, ( Devanāgarī: धर ् म ), and in Pāli, it takes the form dhamma.

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.

It is generally accepted among East Asian adherents that Guanyin originated as the Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara ( अवल ो क ि त े श ् वर ).

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.

itself derived from Sanskrit शर ् कर ा śarkarā.

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

Sangha ( Pali: सन ् घ ; Sanskrit: स ं घ ; Wylie: ' dus sde ) is a word in Pali and Sanskrit meaning " association ", " assembly ," " company " or " community " and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns.

The term " Sikh " has its origin in Sanskrit term श ि ष ् य (), meaning disciple, student, or श ि क ् ष () (" instruction ").

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.

Mleccha ( from Vedic Sanskrit म ् ल े च ् छ, meaning " non-Vedic ", " barbarian "), also spelt as Mlechchha, referred to people of foreign extraction ( non-Aryans ) in ancient India.

Samarasa is one of four principal keywords and teachings of the Natha Tradition, the other three being ' svecchachara ' ( Sanskrit: स ् व े च ् छ ा च ा र ), ' sama ' ( Sanskrit: सम ), and ' sahaja ' ( Sanskrit: सहज ).

* 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.

" Kubera " or " Kuvera " ( क ु व े र ) as spelt in later Sanskrit, means " deformed or monstrous " or " ill-shaped one "; indicating his deformities.

Xuanzang ( Sanskrit: ह ् व े नस ां ग ) ( c. 596 or 602 – 664 ), born Chen Hui () or Chen Yi (), was a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang Dynasty.

Vande Mataram ( Bengali script: ; Hindi / Sanskrit: वन ् द े म ा तरम ्; " I bow to thee, Mother ") is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1882 novel Anandamath.

Avalokiteśvara ( Sanskrit: अवल ो क ि त े श ् वर lit.

Kaikeyi ( Sanskrit: क ै क े य ी, Kaikeyī, Burmese: Kaike, Malay: Kekayi, Thai: Kaiyakesi, Khmer: Kaikesi ), in the Hindu epic Rāmāyaṇa, was the last of King Daśaratha's three wives and a queen of Ayodhyā.

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 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.

Etymologically, the name comes from the Sanskrit words " चन ् द ् र ( candra )", meaning " moon ", and " श े खर ( śekhara )", meaning " crest " or " crown " which is an epithet of Hindu god Shiva.

* Sanskrit Devanāgarī: गत े गत े प ा रगत े प ा रस ं गत े ब ो ध ि स ् व ा ह ा

( Sanskrit व ै श ् रवण ) or ( Pāli व े स ् सवण, Sinhala ව ෛ ශ ්‍ රවණ ) also known as Namtösé in Tibet and Bishamonten in Japan is the name of the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings and an important figure in Buddhist mythology.

Bodhisena ( Sanskrit ब ो ध ि स े न Chinese and Japanese 菩提僊那 ) ( 704 – 760 ) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and monk, known for traveling to Japan and establishing the Kegon school, the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.

Desh (, derived from the Sanskrit word deśa ( द े श ः) meaning " country "), is a region of Maharashtra state in central India.

The main God worshipped here is Ganesh, ( Sanskrit: गण े श ).

Yanqi (; Wade-Giles Yen-ch ’ i ; Sanskrit अग ् न ि द े स Agnideśa ), or Karasahr ( also Karashahr, meaning ' black city ' in Uyghur languages ), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayin ' gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, in northwestern China.

The Atharvaveda ( Sanskrit: अथर ् वव े द ः,, a tatpurusha compound of

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

In Hinduism, Chandra ( Sanskrit चन ् द ् र lit.

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

The Sarvāstivāda ( Sanskrit: सर ् व ा स ् त ि व ा द sarvāstivāda ; ) were an early school of Buddhism that held to ' the existence of all dharmas in the past, present and future, the ' three times '.

It is also very similar to the Sanskrit word " Tri "-( त ् र ि-Three ) " Dunt " ( द ं त-Tooth ).

Sanskrit prosody and metrics have a deep history of taking into account moraic weight, as it were, rather than straight syllables, divided into " laghu " ( लघ ु, " light ") and " deergh " / " guru " ( द ी र ् घ / ग ु र ु, " heavy ") feet based on how many moras can be isolated in each word.

* Sanskrit: Yogācāra ( य ो ग ा च ा र ), Vijñānavāda ( व ि ज ् ञ ा नव ा द ), Vijñapti-mātra, Vijñapti-mātratā, or Cittamātra

Asura ), and the word In-tar from Sanskrit is Indra ( Devanagari: इन ् द ् र ).

Vasubandhu ( Sanskrit: वस ु बन ् द ु; ; ) ( fl.

* They chose Chinese jian 見 to translate Sanskrit dṛś द ृ श ् " see, look ", and the central Buddhist idea of dṛṣṭi द ृ ष ् ट ि " view, seeing ( also with the mind's eye ), wisdom, false view ".