The signs of the zodiac in Indian astrology (jyotisha) are almost similar to those in Western astrology, and it is widely assumed that t...

  Yogmaya is a powerful Goddess form known for her capacity to bewitch and perplex people—in other words, her ability to wield maya, the pow...

  Although it has become a pejorative term for female genitalia in contemporary Hindi, its most literal meaning is "womb,". Th...

  ("strength in combat") Yudhishthira is the oldest of the Pandava brothers, the epic's heroes, in the Mahabharata, the late...

  A moniker for a unit of cosmic time that might have two meanings. Traditional thinking is that time has no origin or conclusion, but rat...

  The eleventh day (ekadashi) of the dark (waning) half of the lunar month of Ashadh (June–July) is a religious celebration. This, like ...

    In practice, the term "yogic adept" refers solely to a yogic adept—someone who "possesses" yoga in the sense of ...

  ("yoga slumber") The Goddess's epithet appears in the first episode of the Devi Mahatmya, the oldest and most authoritativ...

  Yogananda, Paramahamsa, Mukunda Lal Ghosh was born in 1893 and died in 1952. Self-Realization Fellowship founder and modern Hindu instru...

  A symbolic hand gesture (mudra) in Indian dance, sculpture, and ritual in which the right hand is put flat on the left, both palms facin...

  Presiding deity of the sanctuary atop Yellama hill in Saundatti, Karnataka's Belgaum district. Yellama's temple is famous fo...

  The English term "yoke" is connected with the word yoga, which literally means "act of joining." Similarly to how ...

  Yayati is the Hindu ruler Nahusha's son and a king of the Chandra Vamsha or lunar dynasty in Hindu mythology. You may also want to rea...

  Both the solar and lunar calendars are used to establish the Hindu ritual year. There are two indigenous Hindu solar year estimates, bot...

  Yathakhyati means, "discrimination in the state of things". Satkhyati is another term for the theory of mistake. Yathakhyati i...

    (from the Sanskrit word yam, which means "to restrict") The word yati has been used to identify an ascetic, as someone who h...

  Yatra means "travel" in Sanskrit. Although the term yatra may apply to any kind of travel in its literal sense, its semantic s...

  The term yatri refers to a novitiate Bairagi, a renunciant ascetic society made up of worshippers of the deity Vishnu (bhakta). As a c...

    Yaska (5th century BCE?) is traditionally credited with writing the Nirukta, a Vedic treatise that provides etymological explanation...

  Sacred location (tirtha) in the Himalayas near the Yamuna River's sources. Yamunotri is regarded the Yamuna's ritual source, d...