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Namaste (Sanskrit pronunciation:, [1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [2] [3] [4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [5] It is used worldwide among the Hindu, Buddist and Jain traditions.
A boy's name by ancient conventions is typically of two or four syllables, starting with a sonant, a semivowel in the middle, and ending in a visarga. A girl's name is typically an odd number of syllables, ending in a long ā or ī , resonant and easy to pronounce. [ 2 ]
Separating concepts in Hinduism from concepts specific to Indian culture, or from the language itself, can be difficult. Many Sanskrit concepts have an Indian secular meaning as well as a Hindu dharmic meaning. One example is the concept of Dharma. [4] Sanskrit, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts.
Its literal meaning is "female genitalia", but it also encompasses other meanings such as "womb, origin, and source". [40] In some Indic literature, yoni means vagina, [ 40 ] [ 41 ] and other organs regarded as "divine symbol of sexual pleasure, the matrix of generation and the visible form of Shakti".
The word Kanika has multiple origins. [1] It may mean one of the following: Atom, when derived from Kana(Sanskrit: कण), Sanskrit word for atom. Seed, when derived from Kanaka(Hindi: कनक), Hindi word for seed of wheat. Gold, when derived from Kanaka(Sanskrit: कणक), Sanskrit word for gold.
Naveen is chiefly used in Indian languages, and its origin is Sanskrit. [2] It is derived from the element 'Navina' meaning new. The name 'Navina' is the female form ...
Apsaras on Hindu Temple at Banares, 1913. The origin of 'apsara' is the Sanskrit अप्सरस्, apsaras (in the stem form, which is the dictionary form). Note that the stem-form ends in 's' as distinct from, e.g. the nominative singular Rāmas / Rāmaḥ (the deity Ram in Hindi), whose stem form is Rāma.