alin
ī
ascends
sūta
Caste of charioteers, heralds, and bards
sūtra
Thread, rule enounced with a minimum number of words, in somewhat algebraic formulas, often with no verb: in Buddhism, the word takes on the larger connotation “discourse” of the Buddha
sra
-
From self, of self, auto-. one’s own
srakīyā
One’s own woman. legitimate wife
srargaloka
Bright world
srásṛ
Sister
Svasti
Well-being; one of the names of Dev
ī
sraytamātṛṇṇa
Term for the “naturally perforated” stones used in the altar of fire
svayaṃbhū
Self-existing
Svaya
ṃ
prabh
ā
Name of an Apsaras
svayaṃvara
Independent choice; ceremony in which the future bride chooses one of her suitors, after they have undergone a trial of ability
Tak
ṣ
aka
King of the N
ā
gas, lives in the Forest of Kh
ā
ṇ
ḍ
ava
T
ā
ṇ
ḍ
ava
Ś
iva’s cosmic dance
Tantr
ī
Daughter of M
ā
ra
tapas
Heat: ardor: from the Indo-European root
tap
-, which gives the Latin
tepeo
Long translated with a range of tenns (
austérités, penance, Kasteinng, ascèse
). tapas means at once the cosmie heat and the heat within the mind, that which broods, in the sense of incubates (
Brütung
, occasionally, in Deussen)
tapasrinī
A woman who practices
topas
T
ā
raka
A powerful Ausra
tathā
Thus
Tath
ā
gata
He-who-came-thus; name the Buddha gave himself
tathatā
Being thus
tat tram asi
“You are that” (
Chāndogya Upanisad
, 6.8.7); one of the “great sentences,”
mahārākyas
, of the Upanisads
Taurus
A constellation between Orion and the Pleiades
Tawny One
Rohin
ī
, U
ṣ
as
Taxila
Tak
ṣ
a
ś
il
ā
, a city in northwest India, now Pakistan, near Rawalpindi
tejas
Flame; luminous force, manifestation of
tapas
telestêrion
Rectangular building, with columns, where part of the Eleusinian mysteries were enacted
Ten Sisters
The ten fingers
Thirty-three
The Devas: the twelve
Ā
dityas, the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, and the two A
ś
vins (or, in other traditions. Dyaus and Prthiv
ī
, Sky and Earth)
Three Baskets
Tripiṭaka
, into which the teaching of the Buddha is divided
Time
K
ā
la
Tiresias
Seer of Thebes
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910
Tree of Awakening
The fig tree in Gay
ā
under which the awakening,
bodhi
, of the Buddha occurred. Today the place of the awakening is known as Bodhgay
ā
Tremendous
Bhairava; epithet of
Ś
iva
tretā
When playing dice the throw that gives a remainder of three; in the sequence of the
yugas
, the
tretāyuga
follows the
kṛtayuga
Trial, The
Franz Kafka’s novel
Tricephalous
Tri
ś
iras
Tri
ś
a
ṇ
ku
King of the solar dynasty, favorite of Vi
ś
v
ā
mitra
Tri
ś
iras
The Tricephalous: son of Tva
ṣ
ṭ
ṛ
, twin brother of Sara
ṇ
y
ū
: also called Vi
ś
var
ū
pa
triṣṭubh
A Vedic meter made up of four verses of eleven syllables
Truth
Satya; ṛta
Turtle
K
ū
rma
Tu
ṣ
ita
Celestial home of the various Bodhisattvas
Tva
ṣ
ṭ
ṛ
Carpenter, Craftsman; father of Sarany
ū
and Tri
ś
iras, one of the
Ā
dityas
Twelve
The
Ā
dityas
Twisted Goddess
Devi Kundalin
ī
tyád
That
Uccaih
ś
ravas
He who neighs loudly; the White Horse, one of the
ratnas
, “gems,” that appeared during the churning of the ocean
udgātṛ
One of the four main officiants; the chanter, his task is to sing the ritual hymns (
stotras
) of the Sama Veda
udgītha
The second and most important part of the
stotra
; a trio for voices sung by the
udgātṛ
and his assistants
udumbara
Ficus glomerata
; according to legend, it flowers every three thousand years
Ugradeva
Terrifying God; one of the names of Rudra
Ugra
ś
ravas
A bard who tells the story of the
Māhābhārata
, which he hears from Vai
ś
amp
ā
yana
Ul
ū
p
ī
Daughter of the king of the N
ā
gas, wife of Arjuna
Um
ā
From u m
ā
, “oh, no”; another name of P
ā
rvat
ī
Unlimited One
Aditi
Up
ā
li
Palace barber at Kapilavastu, who joins the Buddha’s disciples
Upani
ṣ
ads
Treatises around correspondences; metaphysical texts, the oldest of which are in prose, the later in prose and verse
Uparicara
King from whose seed, swallowed by a large fish, Satyavat
ī
is born
Upav
ā
ṇ
a
Monk, disciple of the Buddha, his servant before
Ā
nanda
Orj
ā
Daughter of Dak
ṣ
a and V
ī
rin
ī
ūru
Thigh
Uruvilv
ā
Locality in Magadha, near Bodhgay
ā
Urva
ś