In Hinduism, an avatar (; ; from Sanskrit अवत ा र in the Devanagari script, meaning " descent ") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being ( i. e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites ) and is mostly translated into English as " incarnation ," but more accurately as " appearance " or " manifestation ".

Vedanta (;, Devanagari:, ) was originally a word used in Hindu philosophy as a synonym for that part of the Veda texts also known as the Upanishads.

Brahmacharya (; Devanagari: ब ् रह ् मचर ् य behavior that leads to Brahman ) is one of the four stages of life in an age-based social system as laid out in the Manu Smrti and later Classical Sanskrit texts in Hinduism.

Mahasiddha (; or ; Sanskrit Devanagari: मह ा स ि द ् ध ; IAST: mahāsiddha, maha meaning " great " and siddha meaning " adept ") is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection.

Namaste (; ; Devanagari: ; formal: Namaskar / Namaskaram ) is a common spoken valediction or salutation originating from the Indian subcontinent.

Hebrew and Arabic also indicate consonant doubling and change with diacritics ; Hebrew and Devanagari use them for foreign sounds.

Secondly and most importantly, being of Sanskrit-based Devanagari, Gujarati's script retains notations for the obsolete ( short i, u vs. long ī, ū ; r ̥, ru ; ś, ṣ ), and lacks notations for innovations ( vs. ; vs. ; clear vs. murmured vowels ).

Vesākha ( Pali ;, Devanagari: व ै श ा ख, Sinhala: ව ෙ සක ් ප ෝ ය ) or Vesak is a holy day observed traditionally by Buddhists in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and the South East Asian countries of Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

650 ), ( Devanagari: चन ् द ् रक ी र ् त ि, ch: Yuèchēng 月称 ; Tib.

Sri ( Devanagari: श ् र ी, IAST ; Śrī ), also transliterated as Shri or Shree or shre is a word of Sanskrit origin, used in the Indian subcontinent as polite form of address equivalent to the English " Mr ." in written and spoken language, or as a title of veneration for deities ( usually translated as " Holy ").

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit lexical item svāhā ( Romanized Sanskrit transcription ; Devanagari: स ् व ा ह ा, chi.

Arjuna ( Devanagari: अर ् ज ु न, Thai: อรช ุ น Orachun, Tamil: அர ் ஜ ு னன ் Arjunan, Indonesian and Javanese: Harjuna, Harjuno, Herjuno, Malay: Ranjuna ; pronounced in classical Sanskrit ( lit.

( Devanagari ; IAST: siddhi ; ) is a Sanskrit noun that can be translated as " perfection ", " accomplishment ", " attainment ", or " success ".

Om or ( written universally as ; in Devanagari as oṃ, auṃ, or om ) is a mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin, sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

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.

Ṛtusaṃhāra often written Ritusamhara, ( Devanagari: ऋत ु स ं ह ा र ; ऋत ु, " season "; स ं ह ा र, " compilation ") is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit by Kalidasa.

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.

There are three orthographical systems used to write the Kashmiri language, these are the Sharada script, the Devanagari script and the Perso-Arabic script ; additionally, due to internet technology, the Roman script is sometimes informally used to write Kashmiri, especially online.

Kumbh Mela ( or ; Devanagari: क ु म ् भ म े ल ा) is a mass Hindu pilgrimage in which Hindus gather at the Ganges and river Godavari, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious.

The sign inventory of IAST ( both small and capital letters ) shown with Devanāgarī equivalents and phonetic values in IPA, is as follows ( valid for Sanskrit ; for Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, some phonological changes have occurred ):

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* र, ड ़', ढ ़, र ् ह — Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha ;

In Devanagari and many other Indic scripts, a virama is used to cancel — or “ kill ”— the inherent vowel of a consonant letter and represent a consonant without a vowel, so-called a “ dead ” consonant.

Mahendra ( Devanagari: मह ें द ् र ) is a Sanskrit compound word deriving from Maha ( Highest Position ) and Indra Deva ( the King of Gods ) from Hindu mythology.

The traditional Devanagari alphabet is still used in India and Nepal to write Hindi and Nepalese respectively, but in Sylhet it has been tampered with in early nineteenth century to reduce the number of vowels and consonants, and eradicated all compound letters, to make it simple for the common folks.

Prāṇāyāma ( Devanagari:, ) is a Sanskrit compound.

It is derived from Sanskrit ( Devanagari ) " having a white or yellowish body ", a bahuvrihi compound from " white, yellowish, reddish " and " limb, member ; the body ".

Venkateswara () ( Devanagari: व ें कट े श ् वर ) also known as Srinivasa, Balaji and Venkatachalapati (), is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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.

In his Tibetan-English dictionary, Chandra ( 1902: p. 32 ) identifies the entry for ' kai la sha ' () which is a loan word from Sanskrit ' kailāsa ' ( Devanagari: क ै ल ा स ).

Marathi literature () is the body of literature of Marathi, a Sanskrit-derived language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra and written in the Devanagari script.

Virama () is a generic term for the diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including Devanagari and Eastern Nagari script, that is used to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter.

Falgun () ( Devanagari / Nepali: फ ा ल ् ग ु न ) is the eleventh month in the न े प ा ल ी Nepali calendar বঙ ্ গ া ব ্ দ Bangla Calendar and the Bikram Sambat.

It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (), Gujarati (ઁ), Oriya () and Telugu (ఁ) scripts.

Mettā ( in Devanagari ) or maitrī () is loving-kindness, friendliness, benevolence, amity, friendship, good will, kindness, close mental union ( on same mental wavelength ), and active interest in others.

Mula ( The Root ) ( Devanagari म ू ल ) () is the 19th nakshatra or lunar mansion in Vedic astrology and corresponds to the stars ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, υ, λ, μ and ν Scorpii in the tail / sting of Scorpius.

An early version of Devanagari is visible in the Kutila inscription of Bareilly dated to Vikram Samvat 1049 ( i. e. 992 CE ), which demonstrates the emergence of the horizontal bar to group letters belonging to a word.

The Suryaprajnaptisutra, an astronomical work dating to the 3rd or 4th c. BC, written in Jain Prakrit language ( in Devanagari book script ), ca.

Radha ( Devanagari: र ा ध ा, IAST: Rādhā ), also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is the childhood friend and lover of Krishna in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, and the Gita Govinda of the Vaisnava traditions of Hinduism.

* In India, both ' Standard ( Shudh ) Hindi ' and ' Standard ( Saaf ) Urdu ' are the " H " varieties ( written in Devanagari & Nastaliq respectively ), whereas ' Hindi-Urdu ' is the " L " variety used by the masses and written in both Devanagari and Nastaliq ( and called ' Hindi ' or ' Urdu ' respectively ) as well as in Roman ( electronic communication ).

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

Yājñavalkya ( Devanagari: य ा ज ् ञवल ् क ् य ) of Mithila was a legendary sage of Vedic India, credited with the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana ( including the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ), besides the Yoga Yajnavalkya and the Yājñavalkya Smṛti.

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.

Pandit Pran Nath ( Devanagari: प ं ड ि त प ् र ा णन ा थ ) ( 3 November 1918 – 13 June 1996 ) was a Hindustani classical singer and teacher of the Kirana Gharana ( school ), a visiting professor of music at Mills College, and taught vocal music at the University of Delhi.

These scripts in turn gave rise to many of the most important scripts of India, including Devanagari ( the most common script used for writing Sanskrit since the 19th Century ), the Gurmukhi script for Punjabi Language and the Tibetan script.

Janpath ( Devanagari: जनपथ ), translated People's Path, is one of the main roads in New Delhi.

The League rejected the Committee report ( the Nehru Report ), arguing that it gave too little representation ( only one quarter ) to Muslims, established Devanagari as the official language of the colony, and demanded that India turn into a de facto unitary state, with residuary powers resting at the center – the League had demanded at least one-third representation in the legislature and sizable autonomy for the Muslim provinces.

Tulsidas ( Devanagari: त ु लस ी द ा स,, also known as Goswami Tulsidas ), ( 1497 / 1532 – 1623 ) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama.

The supported scripts are: Assamese, Bengali ( Bengla ), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.

All India Radio ( AIR ), officially known since 1956 as Akashvani ( Devanagari: आक ा शव ा ण ी, ākāshavānī literally Sky's Voice ), is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati.

For people and systems using non-Latin scripts ( such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hangul, and Japanese ), the English alphabet may be unavailable or difficult to use, understand, or correctly interpret.

Currently the existing supported languages are Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, American English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi ( Devanagari ), Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.