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Sanskrit Words beginning with V

Glossary of Hindu Terms with Meanings

By Subhamoy Das, About.com

Vaishnavites:

devotees of the deity Vishnu

Vaishyas:

person belonging to the third of the four Hindu classes of society, traditionally an artisan or skilled laborer, people of commercial values

Vak:

Divine Word, the Goddess

Vanaprastha:

person at the third of the four stages of life, hermitage or forest-dweller stage of life

Varna:

literally 'color', the word for the four social values or class system in Hinduism

Varnasramadharma:

what is right for class and stage of life

Varuna:

Vedic deity of cosmic order

Vata:

biological air humor

Veda:

knowledge

Vedangas:

rules on ritual, astronomy, morals, grammar and phonetics

Vedas:

the four Vedic ancient scriptures of India, namely the Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva

Vedanta:

Vedic philosophy of Self-knowledge

Vedic Science:

integral spiritual science of the Vedas

Vidya:

knowledge

Vijnana:

intelligence, science

Vijnanavada:

Buddhist philosophy that consciousness alone exists

Vishnu:

God or form of the Hindu trinity governing preservation

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