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Vocabulary for mid-term MCQ v2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ācārya | a teacher |
| adhikāra | stories of the early life of Krishna |
| advaita | shankara-acharya's system |
| ādivāsi | aboriginals; first dwellers in the land |
| arañyaka | the third of the kinds of texts in the vedas; forest books |
| artha | value; wealth |
| ātman | brahman, as it seems to be individuated as a companion to the jiva in the rounds of samsara / universal spirit |
| ayodhyā | capital of teh kingdom of Dsharantha, and later, Rama |
| darśaṇa | a philosophical system / meeting a deity eyeto-eye in temple worship |
| bhārata | second eldest son of Dsharatha in the Ramayana |
| brahmacārya | student stage |
| brahmā | a deva; recreator of the world as an agent of Vishnu |
| brahmasūtra | summary of the teachings of the upanishads |
| dharmaśāstra | law-codes, eg. of Manu |
| dūrgā | a goddess, most popular in Bengal |
| dyaus pitṛ | a vedic diva |
| jīva | life-force; personal spirit. |
| lakṣmaṇa | third son of King Dasaratha in the Ramayana; accompanied his eldes brother, Rama, in this forest exile |
| madhvācārya | a vedantic teacher |
| pañcama | the fifth; a social group outside and beneath the vedic varna system; untouchable; dalit |
| prajāpati | lord of beings; a vedic deva |
| prakṛti | the principal of materiality in the samkhya |
| pūjā | a ritual worship using offerings, lights, and specific actions |
| purāṇa | acient stories of the deities; from 4th century CE |
| rāmānujācarya | vedantic philosopher |
| ṛṣi | a vedic stage |
| saṃñyāsin | a world-renouncer; 4th stage of ashrama |
| varṇa | literally 'colour', the four official social classifications in the rg veda |
| śaṅkaracārya | vedantic philosopher |
| śāstra | a philosophical text |
| śudra | 4th of the varnas; non-dvijas |
| sītā | spouse of rama in the ramayana and queen of ayodhya |
| soma | a psychotropic drink; a deva celebrated in the veda |
| sthītaprajñā | The condition of being "established in wisdom" in the Bhagavad Gita |
| vaiśya | the third of the dvija varnas |
| viśiṣṭādvaita | ramanuja-acharya's system |
| vyāsa | "hearer" of the Vedas and author of the Mahabharata |
| dvijas | the three highest varnas; eligible to study the veda. |
| jāti | birth; birth-status. |
| kaurava | in the Mahabharata, the sons of Dritarashtra; opponents of the Pandavas. |
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