* Professor Paul Zweig writes of his experience of receiving Shaktipat from Swami Muktananda in this anthology.

In the Hindu philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism ( Hindu tantra ), siddha also refers to a Siddha Guru who can by way of Shaktipat initiate disciples into Yoga.

It is held that Shaktipat can be transmitted in person or at a distance, through an object such as a flower or fruit or else by telephone or letter.

Shaktipat can be transmitted with a sacred word or mantra, or by a look, thought or touch-the last usually to the ajna chakra or third eye of the recipient.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

Sanskrit nouns in this case often refer to a subject " out of " which or " from " whom something ( an action, an object ) has arisen or occurred — e. g., patram vṛkṣāt patati " the leaf falls from the tree ".

The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike ; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i. e. non harming or nonviolence.

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,

Borax was known from the deserts of western Tibet, where it received the name of tincal, derived from the Sanskrit.

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 ).

Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the language after its divergence from Proto-Mon – Khmer until the ninth century, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

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 ).

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

It is a derivation from Proto-Indo-Iranian root * dhar-(" to fasten, to support, to hold "), in turn reflecting Proto-Indo-European root * dʰer-(" to hold "), which in Sanskrit is reflected as class-1 root √ dhṛ.

Classical Sanskrit word dharmas would formally match with Latin o-stem firmus < * Proto-Indo-European * dʰer-mo-s " holding ", were it not for its historical development from earlier Rigvedic n-stem.

Much of this complexity is required at least on occasion in the modern Indo-Aryan languages, due to the large amount of clusters allowed and especially due to borrowings from Sanskrit.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

* the Thais as pituphum ( ป ิ ต ุ ภ ู ม ิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

In the library, Bopp had access not only to the rich collection of Sanskrit manuscripts ( mostly brought from India by Jean François Pons in the early 18th century ) but also to the Sanskrit books which had up to that time been issued from the Calcutta and Serampore presses.

Though Vastu is conceptually similar to Feng Shui in that it also tries to harmonize the flow of energy, ( also called life-force or Prana in Sanskrit and Chi / Ki in Chinese / Japanese ), through the house, it differs in the details, such as the exact directions in which various objects, rooms, materials, etc.

The word Tantra is made up by the joining ( sandhi in Sanskrit ) of two Sanskrit words tanoti ( expansion ) & trayati ( liberation ) which means liberation of energy and expansion of consciousness from its gross form.

The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāṇa, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and " ayāma ", to extend or draw out.

This energy is known as prana ( Sanskrit ), chi ( Chinese ) or palang sak ( Thai ).

Nadis are thought to carry a life force energy known as prana in Sanskrit, or qi in Chinese-based systems.

The kīla, particularly those that are wooden are for shamanic healing, harmonizing and energy work and often have two nāgas ( Sanskrit for snake, serpent and / or dragon, also refers to a class of supernatural entities or deities ) entwined on the blade, reminiscent of the Staff of Asclepius and the Caduceus of Hermes.

Further downstream up to the water fall and till the water pool are the Sahasra lingas in Sanskrit language with English equivalent name of " River of a Thousand Lingas ".

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

The writer Aleister Crowley distinguished between two main types of egolessness, for which he used the Sanskrit terms Dhyana ( which means " meditation ") and Samadhi ( which he associated with the Nothing, or in Hebrew Ain ).

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Sumatra was known in ancient times by the Sanskrit names of Swarnadwīpa (" Island of Gold ") and Swarnabhūmi (" Land of Gold "), because of the gold deposits of the island's highland.

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.

In Rudraṭa's Kavyalankara ( 5. 15 ), a Sanskrit work on Poetics, the pattern of a knight's tour on a half-board has been presented as an elaborate poetic figure (" citra-alaṅkāra ") called the " turagapadabandha " or ' arrangement in the steps of a horse.

Related are words for " sky ": the Latin " dies " (" day ") and " divum " (" open sky "), and the Sanskrit " div ," " diu " (" sky ," " day ," " shine ").

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.

A specific hand gesture ( mudra ) called ( Sanskrit for "- hand ") is used to hold the drum.

The Garuda ( Sanskrit: गर ु ड, " eagle ") is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

A rook ( borrowed from Persian رخ rokh, Sanskrit रथ rath, " chariot ") is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.

The combination of areca nut with betel leaf is called tamul ( ত া ম ূ ল / " ত া ম ো ল ") in Assamese, kavala in Kannada, tambulam in Sanskrit, bajjai in Tulu, and paan in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

A desa ( a term that derives from a Sanskrit word meaning " country " that is found in a name such as " Bangladesh ") is administered according to traditions and customary law ( adat ), while a kelurahan is administered along more " modern " principles.

A bandanna or bandana ( from the Sanskrit: बन ् धन bandhana, " to tie ") is a type of large, usually colorful, kerchief, usually worn on the head or around the neck of a person or pet and is not considered to be a hat.

( 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.

Nagarjuna ( c. 150-250 CE ), the founder of the Madhyamika (" Middle Way ") developed an analysis known as the catuskoti ( Sanskrit ).

The lingam ( also, linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit ल ि ङ ् ग ं,, meaning " mark ", " sign ", " gender ", " phallus ", " inference " or " eternal procreative germ ") is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples.

DA (" give ") + + + + + → dadaami ( the da at the beginning is from reduplication, a characteristic of class 3 verbs in Sanskrit )

The word origin of māyā is derived from the Sanskrit roots ma (" not ") and ya, generally translated as an indicative article meaning " that ".

Greek lygros " mournful, sad ," Sanskrit rujati " breaks, torments ," Lettish lauzit " to break the heart ")

Sanskrit pīvan, f. pīvarī and by-form pīvara, " fat, full, abounding ") hence meaning " fat land " or " land of abundance ", applied at an early date to the island of Ireland.