Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

patra
[one who is fit to receive; recipient].

patvari (Patwary) [Hind.]
[a person who keeps the record of village lands, etc.]

pauranika (Pauranic, Puranic)
[relating to the Puranas].

pavitra
a strainer. [Ved.]

pavitram paramam
the supreme purity. [Gita 10.12]

pesah
form. [Ved.]

pinda
the symbolic food offered to the Fathers in the pauranika funeral and memorial rites.

pisaca (Pishacha)
demon; a [hostile] being of the lower vital.

pisacavat
as the unbound vital being, the divine maniac or else the divine demoniac.

pitamaha
grandsire.

pitarah (Pitris)
Fathers, Manes; Fathers who have gone before and discovered the supraphysical worlds. [Puranas]: Ancestors to whom the tarpana is given.
pitrn [accusative plural], to the divinised Ancestors. [Gita 9.25]

pitaro manusyah
the human fathers. [Ved.]

pithasthana
[one of fifty-one places consecrated to the worship of Parvati or, by extension, any place sacred to the Mother].

Pitriloka
see pitrloka

Pitris
see pitarah

pitrloka (Pitriloka)
the world of the Fathers.

Pitriyan
see pitryana

pitrn
see under pitarah

pitrya dhih
the ancestral Thought. [Ved.]

pitryana (Pitriyan)
the road of the Fathers, supposed to lead to inferior worlds attained by the Fathers who still belong to the evolution in the Ignorance.

Poorna Yoga
see purna yoga

poosta
see posta

posa
increase; the growth of all possessions internal or external in the life of the individual. [Ved.]

posta (poosta) [Hind.]
[a debilitating drink, the infusion of opium-poppy heads].

Potr (Potri)
the purifying priest. [Ved.]

prabhava
birth.

prabhu
the Lord; [Ved.]: becoming, coming into existence in front of the consciousness, at a particular point as a particular object of experience.

pracetas
conscious thinker (seems to correspond to the Vedantic prajnana). [Ved.]
pracetah [nominative, feminine], she who has the perceptive knowledge.

pra cetayati ketuna
makes conscious by the ray of intuition. [RV 1.3.12]

pradhana
[in samkhya philosophy]: basis; first substance, first state or arrangement of matter and its essential principle.

pradhanyatah
in some of (My) principal pre-eminences. [Gita 10.19]

Pradyumna
[a name of the god of Love, a son of Krsna].

Prahlada
[a daitya, famous as a devotee of Visnu].

praiti
goes forward. [Kena 1.1]

praja
offspring.

prajapati
the father of creatures. prajapatayah (Prajapatis) [plural], original progenitors.

prajna
the all-wise Intelligence.

prajna
the Self situated in deep sleep [susupti], the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge (prajna).

prajnana
apprehending consciousness; the consciousness that cognizes all things as objects confronting its observation; in the divine mind it is knowledge regarding things as their source, possessor and witness.

prajna prasrta purani
Wisdom that went forth from the beginning. [Svet. 4.18]

prajna purani
[ancient Wisdom]. [see the preceding]

prajna-purusa
the Supreme Intelligence who is the Lord and dwells in the sleep-state holding all things in a seed of dense consciousness.

prakamya
[one of the astasiddhis]: absolute keenness of the mind and senses.
prakamyam [nominative]

prakasa (Prakasha)
[light]; enlightenment, clear radiance; [manifestation].

Prakrit
see Prakrta

Prakriti
see prakrti

prakrta
brought forward.

Prakrta (Prakrit)
[a name given to any of the popular dialects derived from or otherwise cognate with Sanskrit]

prakrti (Prakriti)
"working out"; Nature; Nature-Force; Nature-Soul; executive or working force.
prakrtayah [plural], natural powers.
prakrtim [accusative]

prakrti laya
absorption in prakrti.

prakrtim
see under prakrti

prakrtim mamikam
into My (divine) nature. [Gita 9.7]

prakrtim me param
My supreme nature. [Gita 7.5]

prakrtim svam
own nature. [see the two following]

prakrtim svam adhisthaya ... atmamayaya
standing upon My own nature ... by My self-maya. [Gita 4.6]

prakrtim svam avastabhya
leaning upon My own nature... [Gita 9.8]

prakrtir jiva-bhuta
Nature which has become the jiva. [cf. Gita 7-5]

prakrtistvam niyoksyati
Nature shall yoke thee (to thy work). [Gita 18.59]

prakrto janah
the ordinary man.

prak sarira-vimoksanat
before the release from the body. [Gita 5.23]

pralaya
1. the end of a cycle of aeons; temporary disintegration of a universal form of existence and all the individual forms which move in its rounds.
2. physical death.

pralayam yati deha-bhrt
the soul bearing the body comes to a pralaya. [Gita 14.14]

pramada
[negligence, carelessness; error].

pramana
[one of the sadanga]: proportion, arrangerlent of line and mass, design, harmony, perspective.

pramatha
[one of a class of demons attending on Siva].

pramathanatha
lord of the demoniac, [Siva].

prana
1. Life-energy; life; the breath of life.
2. the five pranas: the five workings of the life-force: [prana (see definition 3 below), apana, vydna, samana, udana].
3. [one of the five pranas]: it moves in the upper part of the body and is pre-eminently the breath of life, because it brings the universal force into the physical system and gives it there to be distributed.

pranakosa
vital or nervous sheath; nervous body.

pranama (Pranam)
[bowing, prostration, obeisance].

pranamaya purusa
soul in life; the (true) vital being.

pranapratistha
[infusion of life into an image or idol].

pranasakti (Prana Shakti)
1. [life-energy].
2. [the full power (and perfection) of the life-force].
pranasaktih [nominative]

pranava
the basic syllable om, which is the foundation of all the creative sounds of the revealed word.

pranava japa
[repetition of the syllable om].

pranayama
the government and control of the respiration; regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.

pranam brahma
[accusative of the following].

prano brahma
Life as the original reality, Life as the great Eternal [brahman] [Tait. 3.3]

prapadyantenyadevatah
they resort to other godheads. [Gita 7.20]

prapanca
phenomena.

prapya punyakrtam lokan usitva sasvatih samah
[having attained to the world of the righteous and having dwelt there for immemorial years]. [Gita 6.41]

prarabdha (karma)
mechanical action of the instruments of the prakrti continuing by force of old impulsion and habit or continued initiation of past energy.

prasada (Prasad)
1. an illumined ease and clarity.
2. [food offered to a deity or to a spiritual teacher; this same food distributed to devotees as a blessing].

prasannata
clear purity and gladness.

prasantih
a general state of peace and calm.
prasantir [ =prasantih]

prasava
(self-)production.

prathamo manota dhiyah
the first thinker of the Thought. [RV 6.1.1]

pratibhanam
genius, a reflection or luminous response in the mind to higher ideation.

pratibodha
realisation; jnana of experience.

pratidanam
[giving in return].

pratijanihi
[know thou for certain]. [Gita 9.31]

prati samudram syandamanah
[flowing towards the ocean].

pratistha
support, foundation, pedestal.

pratisya
by purposeful impulsion. [RV 10.129.4]

pratyahara
the drawing inward of the senses from their objects.

pratyaksa
(knowledge of that which is) before the eyes, direct knowledge.

pratyaksadarsana
[seeing as before one's eyes; direct revelation].

pratyaksa-drsti
direct sight.

pratyaksam brahma
the manifest and evident Eternal [brahman]. [Tait. 1.1; 1.12]

pravesa
entrance.

praviliyante karmani
works vanish and are dissolved. [cf. Gita 4.23]

praviliyate
disappears completely. [Gita 4.23]

pravisya
having entered.

pravisya yah pratirupo babhuva
[that which] having entered, shapes itself to the forms it meets. [cf. Katha 2.2.9]

Pravritti
see pravrtti

pravrtta
[brought forward into the movement; engaged in action and works].

pravrtti (Pravritti)
the moving out and forward; the impetus towards action and works; the soul's evolution into the action.

pravrtti
[the path of pravrtti].

prayas
delight; the outflowing of mayas as the delight and pleasure of the soul in all objects and beings. [Ved.]

prayopavesana
fasting for a long time.

prema
love.

premamayi Radha
[Radha full of love].

prema-samarthya
power of [capacity for] love.

prema-yoga
[yoga of love].

prerana
[command; an impelling to].

preta
[a spirit of a dead person, ghost].

preyas
the pleasant.

Prishni
see prsni

priti
pleasure; ecstasy; love.

pritih
[nominative]

Prithivi, Prithvi
see prthvi

priya
pleasant; the pleasant; [Ved.]: love.
priyam [nominative]

prksa
[material sense]: "delicacy" or satisfying food; [psychological sense]: satisfaction, fullness, delight, pleasure. [Ved.]

Prsni (Prishni)
dappled; used both of the Bull, the supreme Male, and of the Cow, the female Energy. [Ved.]
Prsnih [nominative]


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