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Sanātana Dharma (Devanagari: सनातन धर्म, meaning "eternal dharma", or "eternal order") is an alternative term used by some Hindus to refer to Hinduism instead of the mainstream term Hindu Dharm. The term is found in Sanskrit and other Indian languages.
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit -derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2] However, in formal speech, Hindi tends to draw on ...
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of South Asian English and the Hindustani language. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
Dakṣiṇā or Dakshina ( Sanskrit: दक्षिणा) is a Sanskrit word found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikh and Jain literature where it may mean any donation, fees or honorarium given to a cause, monastery, temple, spiritual guide or after a ritual. It may be expected, or a tradition or voluntary form of dāna. [1] [2] The term is found ...
In the Indian subcontinent, mannat ( Hindi: मन्नत, Urdu: منّت) is a wish that one desires to come to fruition and the vow one makes to a deity or saint after his/her wish comes true. [2] The word comes from the Persian language in which mannat ( منّت ), means "grace, favour, or praise". The word was first used at dargahs, Sufi ...
Taan (Hindi: तान, Urdu: تان) is a technique used in the vocal performance of a raga in Hindustani classical music.It involves the improvisation of very rapid melodic passages using vowels, often the long "a" as in the word "far", and it targets at improvising and to expand weaving together the notes in a fast tempo.
v. t. e. Prajña or Pragya [a] ( Sanskrit: प्रज्ञ, प्रज्ञा, प्राज्ञ, प्राज्ञा) is used to refer to the highest and purest form of wisdom, intelligence and understanding. Pragya is the state of wisdom which is higher than the knowledge obtained by reasoning and inference.
Etymology and nomenclature Historic Sanskrit manuscripts: a religious text (top), and a medical text In Sanskrit, the verbal adjective sáṃskṛta- is a compound word consisting of sáṃ ('together, good, well, perfected') and kṛta - ('made, formed, work'). It connotes a work that has been "well prepared, pure and perfect, polished, sacred". According to Biderman, the perfection ...