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Amrita plays a significant role in the Samudra Manthana, and is the cause of the conflict between devas and asuras competing for amrita to obtain immortality. [3] Amrita has varying significance in different Indian religions. The word Amrit is also a common first name for Sikhs and Hindus, while its feminine form is Amritā. [4]
This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Printable version; In other projects ... is a Sanskrit word meaning "point", "drop" or "dot". Philosophy ... (where it is purified to amrita).
The name Mohini comes from the verb root moha, meaning "to delude, enchant, perplex, or illusion," [1] [2] and literally means "delusion personified." In the Baiga culture of Central India, the word mohini means "erotic magic or spell." [3] The name also has an implied connotation of "the essence of female beauty and allurement." [4]
Each three-line group consists of C S, a line of Sanskrit in handwriting that imitates an East Indian style of the Devanagari script; C T, a line of transliteration of the Sanskrit into dbu can Tibetan letters; and C tr, a line of translation into Tibetan, using dbu med letters. The C tr translation, however, is not of the Sanskrit of the first ...
Paul Deussen states that the title has two meanings, the first being "the esoteric doctrine of a bindu (point) or nada (reverberation) of the word Om which signifies Brahman", while the second meaning is a drop which grants immortality. [6] The discussion of Om by the text, states Deussen, suggests that the former meaning may be more ...
Even if Sen's surmise is correct, it makes "sine" a word inspired by the Sanskrit meaning, and not a word of Sanskrit origin. The OED etymology is: [ad. L. sinus a bend, bay, etc.; also, the hanging fold of the upper part of a toga, the bosom of a garment, and hence used to render the synonymous Arab. jaib, applied in geometry as in sense 2.
Amrit Sanskar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਸੰਸਕਾਰ, romanized: Amrita sasakāra, pronunciation: [ãːmɾʱɪt̪ sә̃nskäːɚ], lit. "nectar ceremony") is one of the four Sikh Sanskaars. [1] The Amrit Sanskar is the initiation rite introduced by Guru Gobind Singh when he founded the Khalsa in 1699. [2] [3]