daksina
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A present, gift or fee paid to a priest or to a guru
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daksinayana
(Language: Sanskrit)
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The six months from the time the sun turns from the tropic of Cancer
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dana
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Giving, donation, charity.
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Dandin
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Sri Dandin was an author from Kānci and who lived during the reign of the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I (630-668).
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darbha
(Language: Sanskrit)
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A kind of sacred grass used in religious rites
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darshan
(alternate spellings: darsan, darsana, darśaṇa, darshana)
(Language: Sanskrit)
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In Hinduism, literally, "seeing," "viewing," or "perceiving"
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dehavasana
(Language: Sanskrit)
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latencies connected with the body
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deva
(Language: Sanskrit)
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a god
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dhanurveda
(Language: Sanskrit)
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The art of warfare or weaponry; military science
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dharana
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Concentration; fixing one's mind or inner faculties on an object, on the One Reality.
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dhoti
(Language: Sanskrit)
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A long strip of white cotton fastened at the waist and draped around the lower part of the body (in Hinduism).
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Dhyani-Bodhisattva (and Dhyani-Buddha)
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Bodhisattva and Buddha "of meditation"
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diksa
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Initiation in general; consecration for a religious ceremony
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dirgha-sumangali
(Language: Sanskrit)
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a long-lived sumangali (qv).
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Divya Prabandham
(Language: Tamil)
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The "Divine Collection" of hymns to Lord Vishnu by the Alvar mystics.
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dravya
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Material; material for a sacrificial rite.
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dravya-suddhi
(Language: Sanskrit)
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See under "Dravya".
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Dvaita
(Language: Sanskrit)
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System of Vedanta according to which the individual self and the Brahman are two separate entities. Duality.
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