Terms for Hinduism and Jainism         Return to home

Please look up the following terms in your handout glossaries or in the Lecture Notes.  Unfortunately, the diacritical marks will not come through on the website because you will not have the HAAC Indic font that I would use.  Use your Source Book and Herman to work back to the diacriticals.

THE FIRST TERMS EXAM

purusha

prakriti

tamasguna

rajasguna

sattvaguna

guna

Atman

Brahman

Ishvara

brahman

brahmin

ahimsa

dasa

varna

shudra

smriti

shruti

advaita

bhakti

Brahma

deva

asura

dharma

dhyana

jiva

jnana

karma

lingam (a)

maya

muni

rishi

nirguna Brahman

saguna Brahman

prasada

rita

samadhi

tat tvam asi

vaishya

kshatriya

tapas

viraj

manas

buddhi

sankhya

citta

kaivalya

Second Terms Exam

ajiva

anekantavada

avatara

avataravada

dvaita: duality as opposed to "nonduality" (advaita).  The Dvaita Vedanta of Madhva claims that Brahman is different from the world and that souls are plural rather than one.

Ganesha:

Ishvara: the one liberated purusha in the Yoga-sutras; saguna Brahman as the creator of the sensible world.

jivanmukta:

lila: the "play" of Brahman creating the world through his uncanny power; or Krishna play with as a child or as a lover of the Gopi girls.  This concept of play has a serious meaning in that it means that ultimately we should not take the world very seriously because neither Brahman nor Krishna did.

Mahabharata

ojas

pramatha

shakti

Shakta

tejas

Tirthankara

uttamapurusha

uttaravada

virya

visharupa