The word ' Ānanda ' means ' bliss ' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.

The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.

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.

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 ).

The word agni is Sanskrit for fire ( noun ), cognate with Latin ignis ( the root of English ignite ), Russian огонь ( fire ), pronounced agon.

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

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 ).

Bhattacharyya's review of Tantric history says that the word chakra is used to mean several different things in the Sanskrit sources:

The English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word in the work Tantravārttika by ( Zvelebil 1990 p. xx ).

As for the origin of the Sanskrit word itself there have been various theories proposed.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

The Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary lists for the Sanskrit word a meaning of " collective Name for 5 peoples, viz.

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.

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 Sanskrit word for emperor is Samrāṭ or Chakravarti ( word stem: samrāj ).

It corresponds to the Proto-Indo-European word puk-meaning " tail of it " ( compare Sanskrit puccha, also " tail ").

The Pali term dukkha ( Sanskrit: duhkha ) is typically translated as " suffering ", but the term dukkha has a much broader meaning than the typical use of the word " suffering ".

Note that purnima or pornima is Sanskrit for full moon, which has also become the Malay word for full moon purnama.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

The Sanskrit term for archery, dhanurveda, came to refer to martial arts in general.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).

The techniques and sometimes the names have been successfully applied in other disciplines: for example, to determine the relationships between the surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, or also between 53 manuscripts of the Sanskrit Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna.

( The Pali / Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means " one who seeks alms ".

Ap () is the Vedic Sanskrit term for water, in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural is not an element. v, ( sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence Hindi.

In the Indo-European languages, some clitics can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European: for example, * is the original form of Sanskrit च (- ca ), Greek τε (- te ), and Latin-que.

* Cit ( consciousness ) or chit, Sanskrit for consciousness or awareness

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.

It is a term which has already been used more or less distinctively by Sanskrit philologists, as a generic appellation for the South Indian people and their languages, and it is the only single term they ever seem to have used in this manner.

* Sanskrit, as well as many of its descendants, like Hindi and Bengali, uses a lossless transliteration system for representing words in the Roman alphabet.

: The Yasna ( from yazišn " worship, oblations ", cognate with Sanskrit yajña ), is the primary liturgical collection, named after the ceremony at which it is recited.

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.

The Sanskrit Yagya is often translated as " sacrifice " ( also " offering, oblation ", or more generically as " worship ").

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.

The Sanskrit and old Hindi noun bhakti is derived from the verb root bhaj, whose meanings include " to share in ", " to belong to ", and " to worship ".

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 Hinduism it is said that by proper worship, with a meticulous prayer procedure ( Sanskrit: Shri Lakshmi Sahasranam Pujan Vidhi ) the blessings of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of money and fortune, may be obtained.

Primary themes include worship, descriptions of temples, philosophy, and nayaka-nayika ( Sanskrit " hero-heroine ") themes.

The reciting of the Sanskrit alphabet, the chanting of mantras, the reading aloud of the scriptures, and performance of music and dance are also described as constituting acts of her worship.

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.

Aarti ( Hindi आरत ी), also spelled arathi, aarthi ( from the Sanskrit word " आर ा त ् र ि क " with the same meaning ) is a Hindu religious ritual of worship, a part of puja, in which light from wicks soaked in ghee ( purified butter ) or camphor is offered to one or more deities.

In Hinduism, yajna ( Sanskrit ; yagam ( Tamil ய ா கம ்) ; also Anglicized as Yajna, Yadna ) is a ritual of sacrifice ( also " worship, prayer, praise, offering and oblation, sacrifice " according to Monier-Williams ) derived from the practice in Vedic times.

The sublime meaning of the word yajna is derived from the Sanskrit verb yaj, which has a three-fold meaning of worship of deities ( devapujana ), unity ( saògatikaraña ) and charity ( dána ).

His Sanskrit lyrics are in praise of the temple deity, but Muthuswami introduces the Advaita thought seamlessly into his songs, resolving the inherent relationship between Advaita philosophy and polytheistic worship.

It is used to describe a particular mode of worship or ' spiritual practice ' ( Sanskrit: sadhana ) that are not only ' heterodox ' ( Sanskrit: Nāstika ) to standard Vedic injunction, but extreme in comparison to the status quo.

There are mentions in epigraphs those forms of dramatized dance worship services that are called aariyam that mostly had Sanskrit scripts for plays.

Panchamrita ( Devanagari: पञ ् च ा म ृ त, from Sanskrit: ) is a mixture of five foods used in Hindu worship and puja, usually honey, sugar, milk, yogurt, and ghee.

It distinguished itself from features of worship of the Sanskrit religion and folk religions.

Mandir construction and mode of worship is governed by Sanskrit scriptures called agamas, of which there are several, which deal with individual deities.

Related terms in other languages are Sanskrit yájati " he worships, he sacrifices ", yajatá-" worthy of worship, holy ", yajñá " sacrifice ", and perhaps also Greek ἅγιος hagios " devoted to the gods, sacred, holy ".

Pāñcarātra are the Vaishnava Sanskrit texts dedicated to worship of Narayana and form part of the Agamas.

One such incident involved bringing in Adi Dravidas into the sanctum sanctorum and asking Brahmin priests to worship in Tamil instead of Sanskrit, since Tamil was propagated to be inferior in comparison to Sanskrit, a language that was restricted only to the Brahmin community.