Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

anushtubh (anushtup)
[the name of a class of Sanskrit metres all of which have eight syllables in each pada], the ordinary epic metre.

anvih
the subtle ones. [Ved.]

anyad
other.

anyadeva
"quite other", other verily. [Isa 10,13]

anyadevatah
other godheads. [Gita 7.20, 9.23]

anyah
other. [Gita 15.17]

apah
see apas

apana
[one of the five pranas]: situated in the lower part of the trunk, it presides over the lower functions, especially over the emission of such parts of the food as are rejected by the body, and over procreation; it is intimately connected with the processes of decay and death; it is the breath of death, for it gives away the vital force out of the body.

apapaviddham
unpierced by evil; pure. [Isa 8]

apara prakrti (Apara Prakriti)
the lower Nature, the external objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all minds, lives and bodies.

aparardha
the lower half (of world existence) ; the lower hemisphere.

apara vidya
the lower knowledge, the knowledge of the world.

apas
1. work, activity.
2. the Waters.
3. [one of the five bhutas]: water [see the following, definition 2].

apas, apah
1. the Waters (the Vedic symbol for the seven cosmic principles and their activities).
2. [one of the five bhutas]: water, the materialising or outward flowing principle of continuation represented to our senses in matter as sap, seed, rasa.

apatyam
child, offspring.

apauruseya
[of divine origin, not of the authorship of man].

Apnavana
[the name of a rsi]; the doer of works; he who acts, he who attains or acquires the seer-wisdom. [Ved.]

apo devih, apo divyah
the divine waters. [Ved.]

apo vicetasah
the waters that have perfect knowledge. [RV 1.83.2]

aprakasa
absence of light, obscurity, forgetfulness.

aprakasita graha
unrevealed or unmanifest planet.

apraketam
inconscient. [see the following]

apraketam salilam
inconscient ocean. [see the following]

apraketam salilam sarvam idam
all this was an ocean of inconscience. [RV 10.129.3]

apramatta
free from negligence.

apramattata
[the state of being free from negligence].

aprameya
immeasurable.

apravrtti
inertia, [opposite of pravrtti].

apriya
unpleasant; the unpleasant.
apriyam [nominative]

apsaras (Apsara)
[a celestial damsel], one of the divine Hetairae of Paradise.

apsu surye
in surya and in the waters. [see the following]

apsu surye mahad dhanam
the great wealth which is found in the sun [surya] and in the waters. [RV 8.68.9]

aptakama
satisfied in his desires.

aptavakyam
authority (the recorded opinions of men who had viveka, or traditions and customs founded on an ancient enlightenment).

arabhate karmayogam
engages in the yoga of action. [Gita 3.7]

aradhana
worship of the Divine (love, self-surrender, aspiration to the Divine, calling the name, prayer).

aradhas
[without prosperity or felicity]. [Ved.]

arambha
initiation [i.e. beginning].

arani (Aranis)
the [two] tinders (Heaven and Earth). [Ved.]

Aranyaka
[a class of religious and philosophical writings closely connected with the Brahmanas].

arati
traveller, fighter, worker, pilgrim; the energy that does the great work. [Ved.]

aratih
the powers of undelight. [Ved.]

Arcananas
the name of a rsi, "the pilgrim of the Light", he who travels to the illumination created by the word. [Ved.]

arhat
worthy; exalted; [in Buddhism]: one extremely exalted or one who has risen high above the world; the arya perfected.

ari
a fighter, one's own champion; a hostile fighter, an enemy.

arih krstayah
the fighters, doers of work, the Aryan people, the warlike nations. [Ved.]

arjava
candour, sincerity, clearness, open honour.

arka
sun, light; the Vedic hymn.
arkaih [instrumental plural], by the hymns of illumination. [Ved.]

arocayat
[he illumined or made it to shine].

arodhanam divah
the ascending slope of heaven. [RV 4.8.2,4]

arogyam
[diseaselessness, health].

arogyam utthapana saundaryam vividhanandah iti sariracatustayam
see these words separately

arsa prayoga
["rsi's license": a form of expression, sometimes violating the normal rules of grammar, peculiar to the Vedic rsis].

arta
[one of the four classes of devotees]: the distressed, who turn to the divine help in the sorrow and suffering of existence. [Gita 7.16]

artha
1. [one of the four human interests]: interest; material, economic and other aims and needs of the mind and body.
2. object, thing.
3. meaning, significance [of a word].
4. arthan [accusative plural]

artharthi
[one of the four classes of devotees]: the seeker of personal objects, one who seeks the Divine for fulfilment of desire. [Gita 7.16]

arthasastra (Arthashastra)
[(a book treating of) the science of political economy or political science].

arup [Beng.]
[formlessness, chaos].

arupa
formless.

arvat, arvan
horse, war-horse.
arvatsu [locative plural]

arya
an aspiring soul, one who rises to the noble aspiration and who does the great labour as an offering in order to arrive at the good and the bliss. [Ved.]
aryah [nominative]

arya (Aryan)
the good and noble man; the fighter; he who strives and overcomes all outside him and within him that stands opposed to the human advance; he who does the work of sacrifice, finds the sacred word of illumination, desires the gods and increases them and is increased by them into the largeness of the true existence; he is the warrior of the light and the traveller to the Truth.

aryabhumi
[the country of the arya, India], the Sacred Land.

aryah
see under arya

Aryaman
[Ved.]: the Aspirer; the aspiring power and action of the Truth; the Force of sacrifice, aspiration, battle, journey towards perfection and light and celestial bliss by which the path is created, travelled, pursued beyond all resistance and obscuration to its luminous and happy goal. [Later]: the chief of the Fathers [pitrs].
Aryama [nominative]

aryam varnam (Arya Varna)
[the colour (varna) of the arya]. [Ved.]

Aryan
see arya

aryapatnih
[those (feminine) ] possessed by the arya; wives of the noble ones.

arya sakti
[an Energy of the nature of the arya].

aryavarta
[the abode of the arya, India].

asad atman
[the Self (atman) as non-being]; Universal Non-Being.

asakta-buddhih sarvatra
[having] an understanding unattached everywhere. [Gita 18.49]

asaktam sarvabhrt
unattached, yet all-supporting. [Gita 13.15]

asakti
[attachment].

asambhuti
the Non-Birth, non-Becoming. [Isa 12]

asammudhah...martyesu
unbewildered among mortals. [cf. Gita 10.3]

asana
1. [in hathayoga]: fixed posture, rigidly set position of the body.
2. a place and a fixed position (where the rsis would sit still until they got siddhi).

asanaya mrtyuh
the Hunger which is Death. [Brhad. 1.2.4]

asanti
disquiet, trouble.

asanya (prana)
the chief Breath or Breath of the mouth. [Brhad. 1.3.7]

asat
Non-Being, Non-Existence, Nothingness; that which is not manifested and beyond manifestation and is not contained in the basis of manifestation.

ascaryam
mystery.

asesatah
without omission or remainder. [Gita 7.2 etc.]

asesena
without exception. [Gita 4.35 etc.]

Ashtasiddhi
see astasiddhi

Ashutosha
see asutosa

Ashwa
see asva

Ashwamedha
see asvamedha

Ashwattha
see asvattha

Ashwins
see Asvins

asivam
evil.

aslila
[indecent].

asmajjuhuranam enah
... from us the devious attraction of sin. [Isa 18]

asmakebhih nrbhih
by our men. [Ved.]

asnute saha brahmana
enjoyeth... along with the brahman. [Tait. 2.1]

asrama (Ashram)
1. the house or houses of a Teacher or Master of spiritual philosophy in which he receives and lodges those who come to him for the teaching and practice.
2. the four asramas: the four successive stages or periods of the developing human life: the period of the student, the period of the householder, the period of the recluse or forest-dweller, the period of the free super-social man.

asraya
the whole basis, lodgement, point of resort (of the consciousness and action).

asrjata
loosed (it) forth.

astasiddhis
[the eight siddhis (occult powers)].

astau slokasahasrani
eight thousand slokas. [Mahabharata, Adiparva, I .81]

asti hi ekam
for it is the One.

asu
vital force, might (which is the basis of all energetic and impetuous feeling and action).

asu
swift, full of swiftness.

asubham
evil, defect.

asuddha
impure.

asuddhi
[impurity].

asura
[Ved.]: the Lord; used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the deva, but also for the gods, his manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans; [Later] : the strong or mighty one, Titan; a [hostile] being of the mentalised vital.

asurisu
into Asuric (births). [Gita 16.19]

asurya
titanic.
asuryah [plural]

asurya
sunless, unillumined.
asuryah [plural] [Isa 3]

asuryam
the god-power, the mastering force of the Lord, the divine "asura" in us. [Ved.]

asutosa (Ashutosha)
[the swiftly placated (with sacrifice and effort), an epithet of Rudra-siva], the refuge of men.

asuya
[envy], carping.

asva (Ashwa)
Horse, a figure of the prana, the dynamic force of Life; Energy, Force.

asva
mare.
asvah [plural]

asvada
taste.


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