* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

During the time of Menander I, the Yona ( Ionian ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria-of-the-Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BCE.

* The head of this Buddhist community was a Greek ( Yona ) Buddhist elder whose religious name was Mahadhammarakkhita (" Great protector of the Dharma ), indicating the direct involvement of Greeks in the development of the faith, in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent.

In Buddhist literature, the Greek ( Pali: Yona, lit: " Ionian ") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus ), with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka:

:" From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera (" elder ") Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.

:" From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.

:" From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera ( elder ) Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.

:" From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera ( elder ) Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.

The Sanskrit word ' Vāta ' literally means " blown ", ' Vāyu ' " blower ", and ' Prāna ' " breathing " ( viz.

The Śulba Sūtras ( literally, " Aphorisms of the Chords " in Vedic Sanskrit ) ( c. 700-400 BCE ) list rules for the construction of sacrificial fire altars.

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

Hīnayāna ( ह ी नय ा न ) is a Sanskrit and Pāli term literally meaning: the " Inferior Vehicle ", " Deficient Vehicle ", the " Abandoned Vehicle ", or the " Defective Vehicle ".

The word Kashmir is an ancient Sanskrit word which literally means Land of Kashyap Rishi.

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka ( aka Ceylon ), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil " Seren deevu " or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island ( some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to " Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island ").

* Sūtra, A Sanskrit word which literally means a thread or line that holds things together

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.

The word " tulku " literally means Body of Emanation ; in Sanskrit is Nirmanakaya.

The Himalayas, also Himalaya, ( or ; Sanskrit, hima ( snow ) + ālaya ( dwelling ), literally, " abode of the snow ") is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

The name comes from the Sanskrit root yudh, meaning " fight " or " wage war ," and it translates to either " not to be fought " or, less literally, " unconquerable.

Krishna ( Sanskrit: क ृ ष ् ण in IAST, pronounced literally " black, dark blue ") is a Hindu deity, a " complete " avatar ( or " incarnation ") of the preserver-god, Vishnu.

Both the Avestan and Sanskrit words reflect Proto-Indo-Iranian * mazdhā -, from Proto-Indo-European, literally meaning " placing () one's mind ()", hence " wise ".

( Sanskrit ny-āyá, literally " recursion ", used in the sense of " syllogism, inference ") is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy — specifically the school of logic.

The full title of the Achaemenid rulers was Kshatriya Kshatriyanamah, " King of Kings " in Old Persian ( Kshatriya is a Sanskrit word denoting warrior and King ), corresponding to Middle Persian šāhān šāh, literally " kings ' king ", and Modern Persian shāhanshāh ( شاهنشاه ).

Narasimha (, ) or Nrusimha ( न ृ स िं ह, Nṛsiṃha ), also spelled as Narasingh, Narsingh and Narasingha, whose name literally translates from Sanskrit as " Man-lion ", is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu and one of Hinduism's most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium.

Amrit (; IAST: amṛta ) is a Sanskrit word that literally means " immortality ", and is often referred to in texts as nectar.

Naraka () is the Sanskrit word for the underworld ; literally, of man.

The term comes from the Sanskrit word bhumiputra, which can be translated literally as " prince of land " ( bhumi = earth or land, putra = prince ).

So " Bumiputra " literally in Sanskrit means " Son of the Soil ".

The name comes from Avestan Haētumant, literally " dammed, having a dam ", cognate with Sanskrit Setumanta " having a dam ", which referred to the Helmand River and the irrigated areas around it.

" In Sanskrit, the word literally means: Uninterrupted series of succession.

Samsāra or Sangsāra ( Sanskrit: स ं स ा र ) ( in Tibetan called " khorwa "), literally meaning " continuous flow ", is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth ( reincarnation ) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Yoga and Sikhism.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

Mahatma ( Mə-HÄT-mə ) is Sanskrit for " Great Soul ".

The Tibetan term dzogchen is sometimes said to be a rendering of the Sanskrit term mahāsandhi ,< ref > Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection by the < nowiki ></ nowiki > Dalai Lama, Snow Lion, 2004.

Svabhava ( Sanskrit ; Wylie: rang bzhin ) is very important in the nontheistic theology of the Bonpo Dzogchen ' Great Perfection ' tradition where it is part of a technical language to render macrocosm and microcosm into nonduality.

Chandragupta II The Great ( Sanskrit: ; candragupta vikramāditya ) was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire in northern India.

The title, meaning " Great Scholar ", is a Tibetan contraction of the Sanskrit paṇḍita ( scholar ) and the Tibetan chenpo ( great ).

Magadha () formed one of the sixteen Mahā-Janapadas ( Sanskrit: " Great Countries ") or kingdoms in ancient India.

In Hinduism, the goddess Tara ( Bengali: দ ে ব ী ত া র া ম া )( Sanskrit: Tārā, Devanagari: त ा र ा) meaning " star " is the second of the Dasa ( ten ) Mahavidyas or " Great Wisdom ", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali, or Parvati.

The ancient Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, also termed Itihāsa (" History ") or Mahākāvya (" Great Compositions "), refer to epic poems that form a canon of Hindu scripture.

Svabhava ( Sanskrit ; Wylie: rang bzhin ) is very important in the nontheistic theology of the Bonpo Dzogchen ' Great Perfection ' tradition where it is part of a technical language to render macrocosm and microcosm into nonduality, as Rossi ( 1999: p. 58 ) states:

These were rare Tibetan works based on old Sanskrit writings ( brought originally from the area of the Buddha's personal teachings in Magadha or Bihar in India ) and he was able to offer them to The Asiatic Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1838.

The ( Sanskrit: मह ा स ां घ ि क ; ), literally the " Great Saṃgha ", was one of the early Buddhist schools in ancient India.

* Great Goddess, anglicized form of the Sanskrit Mahadevi, the Shakti sum of all goddesses

A Catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit Manuscripts: Especially Those of the Whish Collection Belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

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

The case of Maharaja (" Great Raja ", great King and Prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi ) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by " title inflation " as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style.

In Hinduism, Mahadevi ( Sanskrit: Mahādevī, Devanagari: मह ा द े व ी) or " Great Goddess " is a term used to denote the Goddess or Devi that is the sum of all other Devis-an all encompassing Female Deity as the consort or complement to an all encompassing Male Deity ( Deva ) or the Ultimate Reality ( Brahman ) in Shaktism.

* Ṇamō, a Sanskrit term, meaning " name of " used mostly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism ( see Namokar Mantra ) to express honor to God or a Great person

Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.

While including accounts from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka (" Basket of Discipline "), this literature also includes a large number of Sanskrit collections, of which the chief are the Mahāsaṅghika's Mahāvastu (" Great Book "), and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadanasataka ( Century of Legends ) and Divyavadana ( The Heavenly Legend ).

In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Five Dhyani Buddhas (), also known as the Five Wisdom Tathāgatas (), the Five Great Buddhas and the Five Jinas ( Sanskrit for " conqueror " or " victor "), are representations of the five qualities of the Buddha.

The following Sanskrit names of Nine Great Nāgas, namely, Ananta, Vāsuki, Shesha, Padmanābha, Kambala, Shankhapāla, Dhārtarāshtra, Takshaka, and Kaliya: