Common Sanskrit Technical Terms
Common Sanskrit technical terms Common Sanskrit Technical Terms Source: http://www.advaita.org.uk/sanskrit.htm In square brackets is ITRANS code (Note: the long vowels are capitalised) [A more extended dictionary is available for download at http://sanskritdocuments.org/dict/dictall.pdf] A a [a] – as a prefix to another word, it changes it into the negative. e.g. vidya - knowledge, avidya - ignorance. abhasa [AbhAsa] – semblance, phantom, fallacious appearance.Shankara's teaching metaphor of the white crystal taking on the color of adjacent objects is called AbhAsa vAda - the argument of appearance. abhava [abhAva] – non-existence, absence. See anupalabdhi. abhimana [abhimAna] – self-conceit, pride; conception (esp. an erroneous one regarding one's self). abhivyakti [abhivyakti΄] – manifestation; distinction. (abhivyakta - manifest, evident, distinct.) abhyasa [abhyAsa] – exercise, discipline; in Raja Yoga, this refers to "the (repeated) effort of the mind to remain in its unmodified condition of purity (sattva)." Ramana Maharshi sometimes refers to a spiritual aspirant as an abhyAsI - i.e. one who practices (uniterruptedly). acharya [AchArya] – a spiritual guide or teacher. See Shankaracharya. achintya [achintya] – inconceivable or beyond thought. adhama [adhama] – lowest, vilest, worst. adhara [AdhAra] – support, prop, sta, substratum. adheya [Adheya] – assigned, attributed, contained; the attributes in the AdhAra subtratum. adhibhautika [adhibhautika] – (resulting) from such things as wars, disagreements, natural disasters. adhi means from, from the presence; bhautika means anything elemental or material. adhidaivika [adhidaivika] – (resulting) from the presence of divine or supernatural forces. adhi means from, from the presence; daivika is the adjective from deva (god) meaning coming from the gods, divine. adhikarana [adhikaraNa] – (in philosophy) a substratum; realtionship of words in a sentence (e.g.
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