Samsāra is perpetuated by craving and ignorance.

Samsāra or bondage arises when the Puruṣa does not have the discriminate knowledge and so is misled as to its own identity, confusing itself with the Ego / ahamkāra, which is actually an attribute of Prakriti.

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,

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.

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 writer Bharata Muni, in his work on dramatic theory A Treatise on Theatre ( Sanskrit: Nātyaśāstra, न ा ट ् य श ा स ् त ् र, c. 200 BCE – 200 CE ), identified several rasas ( such as pity, anger, disgust and terror ) in the emotional responses of audiences for the Sanskrit drama of ancient India.

Soma ( Sanskrit स ो म sóma ), or Haoma ( Avestan ), from Proto-Indo-Iranian * sauma -, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures.

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.

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

Sandhi ( Sanskrit: स ं ध ि " joining ") is a cover term for a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries ( thus belonging to what is called morphophonology ).

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 '.

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.

The first syllable Sur-originates from the Sanskrit word Sura ( Devanagari: स ु र ) meaning God ( cf.

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.

The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra ( Sanskrit: व ि मलक ी र ् त ि न ि र ् द े श स ू त ् र ), or Vimalakīrti Sūtra, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtra.

( म ी म ां स ा), a Sanskrit word meaning " investigation " ( compare Greek ἱστορία ), is the name of an orthodox ( Skt.

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.

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.

* Translators used xing 性 or zixing 自性 " self-nature " for Sanskrit svabhāva स ् वभ ा व " intrinsic nature, essential nature ".

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 ).

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.

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.

The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा वत ा रस ू त ् र ; ) is a sutra of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

The name ultimately comes from Sanskrit क ु ङ ् क ु म ं kunkumam, unless the Sanskrit word is from the Semitic one.

The Sanskrit term ल ि ङ ् ग ं, transliterated as linga, has diverse meaning ranging from gender and sex to philosophic and religions to uses in common language, such as a mark, sign or characteristic.

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

Lanka ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा Sri lankā meaning " respected island ", Sinhala: ල ං ක ා ප ු ර ( Langkapura ), Malay: Langkapuri, Tamil: Ilankai, Javanese and Indonesian: Alengka or Ngalengka ) is the name given in Hindu mythology to the island fortress capital of the legendary king Ravana in the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

Samhita ( Sanskrit: saṁhitā < sub >< small ></ small ></ sub > स ं ह ि त ा ; sŭm ' hĭ-taa, " compilation of knowledge " or " collection of Mantras or Hymns ") may refer to:

In Hindu mythology, Nandini ( Sanskrit: नन ्‍ द ि न ी or न ं द ि न ी, " the enjoying ") is the name of a wish-granting cow, the child of Kamadhenu and asitharishi Vasistha.

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

This place was referred to as Matanga ( मत ं ग ), the Sanskrit for elephant.

* Makara Sankaranti: (, Sanskrit: मकर स ं क ् र ा न ् त ि, Bengali: মকর স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি, Assamese: মকৰ স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি, Malayalam: മകര സ ാ ന ്‍ ക ് ര ാ ന ് ത ി, Tamil: த ை ப ் ப ொ ங ் கல ், Telugu: మకర స ం క ్ ర ాం త ి, Marathi: मकर स ं क ् र ा न ् त ि, Kannada: ಮಕರ ಸ ಂ ಕ ್ ರ ಾಂ ತ ಿ) or Sankranti or Sankranthi marks the transition of the Sun into Makara rashi ( Capricorn ) on its celestial path.

* Maha Vishuva Sankranti: ( Oriya: ମହ ା ବ ି ଷ ୁ ବ ସଙ ୍ କ ୍ ରମଣ, Sanskrit: मह ा व ि ष ु व स ं क ् रमण, Bengali: মহ া ব ি ষ ু ব স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি), also known as Mesha Sankranti and Pana Sankranti, is celebrated as the Oriya New Year and is marked as the end of a Bengali year.

Mandapa ( or Mandapam ) ( म ं डप in Hindi / Sanskrit, also spelled mantapa or mandapam ) is a term to refer to pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public rituals.

* Prapheni ), tradition, is from Sanskrit पर ं पर parampara, an uninterrupted series, regular series, succession ' to be handed down in regular succession '; from Pali paraṁparā 7795 paraṁparā series, tradition.

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

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

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 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.

First attested in English c. 1600, the word " navy " came via Old French navie, " fleet of ships ", from the Latin navigium, " a vessel, a ship, bark, boat ", from navis, " ship " and from Sanskrit " न ा व " ( Nav ), " ship ".

Prakrit ( also transliterated as Pracrit ) ( Sanskrit:, Shauraseni: प ा उद, Telugu: ప ్ ర ా క ృ త, Maharashtri: प ा उअ ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

itself derived from Sanskrit शर ् कर ा śarkarā.

Also spelled Siem, Syâm or Syâma, it has been identified with the Sanskrit Śyâma ( श ् य ा म, meaning " dark " or " brown ").

However, it is believed instead to be derived from an Indo-Iranian word meaning " white-yellow, pale "; in Sanskrit, this word's reflex was प ा ण ् डर pāṇḍara, which was derived from प ु ण ् डर ी क puṇḍárīka ( tiger, among other things ), then borrowed into Greek.

* Hindi: Rājkumār ( र ा जक ु म ा र ), Kũwar ( क ुँ वर ), both from Sanskrit rāj ( royal ) + kumāra ( a boy )

In the Hindu religion, Thursday is Guruvaar ( ग ु र ु व ा र ), from Guru, the Sanskrit name for Jupiter, the largest of planets.

Begawan is a name given to Bruneian monarchs who have abdicated, originally coming from the Sanskrit word for " god ": भगव ा न bhagavān.