Mahabharata, in which one of the regions is named as Panchanada (Sanskrit: पञ्चनद, romanized: pañca-nada, lit. 'five rivers'). Earlier, Punjab was known as Sapta...

calls one of the regions in ancient Bharat Panchanada (Sanskrit: पञ्चनद, romanized: pañca-nada, lit. 'five rivers'). The ancient Greeks referred to the...

Mahabharata, in which one of the regions is named as Panchanada (Sanskrit: पञ्चनद, romanized: pañca-nada, lit. 'five rivers'). Earlier, the Punjab was known as...

Sanskrit language has a complex verbal system, rich nominal declension, and extensive use of compound nouns. It was studied and codified by Sanskrit grammarians...

Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas. It also known as Amrita Nada Bindu Upanishad.(Sanskrit: अमृतनादबिन्दु उपनिषद) The text exists in two significantly...

which calls one of the regions in Aryavarta Panchanada (Sanskrit: पञ्चनद, romanized: pañca-nada, lit. 'five rivers'). The ancient Greeks referred to the...

Bhakti, Ahimsa, Nāda, and Dhyana. Shastra, or scripture, is the study and exploration of the four central texts of yoga and of the Sanskrit language in which...

Vishuddha (Sanskrit: विशुद्ध, IAST: Viśuddha, English: "especially pure"), or Vishuddhi (Sanskrit: विशुद्धी), or throat chakra is the fifth primary chakra...

combine shrutis and connect nadas, resulting in characteristically different music between the styles. Many ancient Sanskrit and Tamil works refer to the...

Dattatreya Rama Rao Parvatikar (Sanskrit: दत्तात्रेय राम राव् पर्वतिकर्, IPA: [dɐttaːtɽeːjɐ ɽaːmɐ ɽaːʋ pɐɽʋɐtɪkaːɽ]) [1916-1990], was a Hindu saint and...

Urdu share a core vocabulary base derived from Prakrit (a descendant of Sanskrit). Hindi is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually...

composition: Malayalam Nada, Tamil Nada and Sanskrit Nada. Classical songs known as Nadan Pattu Manipravalam of the Sanskrit tradition, which permitted...

claimed to have obtained this information from Chanvar Purana, an ancient Sanskrit-language text purportedly discovered by a sage in a Himalayan cave. According...

the baisa equals 1⁄1000 of an Omani rial. The word paisa is from the Sanskrit term padāṁśa (पदांश, basic unit), meaning 'quarter part base', from pada...

Shiksha (Sanskrit: शिक्षा, IAST: śikṣā) is a Sanskrit word, which means "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill". It also refers to one of the six...

Nala and Damayanti (Sanskrit title: नलोपाख्यान Nalopākhyāna, i.e. "Episode of Nala") is an episode from the Indian epic Mahabharata. It is about King Nala...

Shabda (Sanskrit: शब्द, IAST: Śabda) is the Sanskrit word for "speech sound". In Sanskrit grammar, the term refers to an utterance in the sense of linguistic...

Bodhiruci (672-727). A complete Sanskrit original is no longer extant, but extensive quotations are found in the Sanskrit text of the Ratnagotravibhāga...

The Kapotaksha (Sanskrit), or Kobodak (Bengali: কপোতাক্ষ নদ, romanized: Kapōtākṣa Nada), Kabadak, or Kopotakkho, is a river of Bangladesh. The river is...

physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means "force", alluding to a system of physical...

Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार, IAST: Sahasrāra, English: "thousand-petalled", with many alternative names and spellings) or the crown chakra is considered...

devas and devis (Hindu gods and goddesses), and is venerated as symbolic of nāda brāhman. Ancient treatises also describe the connection of the origin of...

ritual chanting and incidental forms of music-related performance arts. Sound Nada (intelligible sound) is the treasure of happiness for the happy, the distraction...

practice of Nada Yoga as propounded by Gorakhshanath and his school." James Mallinson (2004). The Gheranda Samhita: The Original Sanskrit and an English...

misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Khecarī mudrā (Sanskrit, खेचरी मुद्रा) is a hatha yoga practice carried out by curling the tip...

her mother, Meenakshi was a music composer and a lyricist in Tamil and Sanskrit. She was trained by Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiyah Pillai. She started teaching...

stable population. Kannada includes many loan words from Sanskrit. Some unaltered loan words (Sanskrit: तत्सम, romanized: tatsama, lit. 'same as that'') include...

Sometimes the nāda-sphoṭa distinction is posited in terms of the signifier-signified mapping, but this is a misconception. In traditional Sanskrit linguistic...

letter O.[citation needed] Slang words for zero include "zip", "zilch", "nada", and "scratch". In the context of sports, "nil" is sometimes used, especially...

most prominent svara in the raga.[clarification needed] The Sanskrit word rāga (Sanskrit: राग) has Indian roots, as *reg- which connotes "to dye". Cognates...