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Words Starting with D

 

dādrā – a commonly used six beat cycle

 

daiva – the Supreme Lord

 

daitya – demoniac persons; sons of Dītī

 

dāl – a spicy bean used in soup form in Indian cuisine

 

Dāmodara – 1) name of Lord Kṛṣṇa when He was fastened by the stomach between a large mortar and two arjuna trees 2) the Vaiṣṇava name of Kartika (October-Novemeber)

 

dānava – the demoniac race

 

Dantāvakra – one of the demons killed by Lord Kṛṣṇa during His late pastimes

 

daridra-nārāyaṇa – a misconception that just because the Supreme Lord resides in all, all is to be worshipped and accepted as God

 

Daśagrīva – (“one with ten heads”) another name of Rāvaṇa.

 

Daśānana – another name of Rāvaṇa.

 

daśavatāra – the ten well-known forms of Lord Kṛṣṇa by Jayadeva Gosvāmī.

 

Daśaratha – father of Lords Rāma, Bharata, Lakṣmaṇa, and Satrughna

 

Dattātreya – a three-headed incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu

 

dāsa – servant (male)

 

dāsattva – servitude

 

dāsī – maidservant (female)

 

dāyā – the smaller treble side of a drum

 

deva – demigod or divine personality (male = deva; female = devī)

 

Devadatta – conch shell blown by Arjuna during the Mahābhārata war

 

Devaka – 1) father of Devakī 2) son of Yudhiṣṭhira

 

Devakī – wife of Vasudeva, mother of Kṛṣṇa

 

Devanāgari – (lit. “the city of the demigods”) the script that is used in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and other Indian languages

 

Devavrata – the birth name of Bhiṣma

 

dhaivata – the sixth name in the musical scale (Dha)

 

dharma – eternal religious principles and duties; righteousness

 

dhamāra – 1) a fourteen beat pakhawaj cycle 2) an ancient form of classical music based on lyrics on Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes of Holi

 

dhamāri – a rhythmic cycle with 11½ beats

 

dhamāli – an eight beat cycle

 

Dhanāρjaya – a name of Arjuna; winner of wealth

 

Dhanyamālinī – second wife of Rāvaṇa, mother of Atikāya

 

dhenu – cow

 

Dhenuka – 1) (Dhenukāsura) a donkey demon who was killed by Lord Kṛṣṇa 2) a melakartā from the South Indian system

 

dhol – a large barrel drum played with a stick

 

dholak - a small wooden folk drum consisting of ttwo sides made of leather

 

dholakī – see nāl

 

Dhṛṭarāṣṭra – the blind son of Ambikā, father of the Kaurava princes, headed by Duryodhana; he collaborated with his sons to destroy the righteous Pāṇḍavas

 

dhrupada – an ancient style of classical music

 

Dhruva – 1) the young devotee boy who performed penance in order to see Lord Kṛṣṇa 2) one of the constellations 3) one of the seven original tālams of South Indian music

 

Dhumālī – a text on songs and pastimes of Lord Caitanya by Locana Dāsa Thākura

 

dhyāna – meditation

 

dhyāna yoga – meditation of the Supreme Lord

 

Dilīpa – father of Bhagiratha, ancestor of Lord Rāma

 

dilrubā – a bowed stringed instrument very similar to esraj, played in North and Western India

 

dīpa – light

 

dīpacandī – common fourteen beat cycle

 

Dītī – mother of the demoniac race

 

Draupadī – wife of the five Pāṇḍavas, born out of fire, daughter of King Drupada

 

Droṇa – the military teacher of the Pāṇḍavas and Kauravas who sided with the Kauravas during the war

 

Droṇa Parvana – the seventh book of the Mahābhārata discussing the war when Droṇa was commander-in-chief of the Kaurava army

 

druta – fast tempo

 

drutam – one of the three ańgams in South Indian music worth two beats

 

Drumakulya – the village where the Brahmāstra (by Lord Rāma’s desire) destroyed the demons to create the fountain hood of science and medicine

 

Drupada – father of Draupadī, Dṛṣṭadyumna, and Sikhaṇḍī

 

Dṛṣṭadyumna – son of Drupada, born out of fire, slain by Aśvatthamā in sleep

 

dugga – see bayan

 

Duḥśāsana – the younger brother of Duryodhana who disrobed Draupadī; was brutally slain by Bhīma

 

Durgā – wife of Lord Siva, fierce material energy personified

 

Durvāsa – the seer who was known for his curses and short temper

 

Duryodhana – the eldest son of Dhṛṭarāṣṭra and Gāndhārī, committed many atrocities to the Pāṇḍavas; defeated and killed by Bhīma

 

Duśalā – the daughter of Dhṛṭarāṣṭra and Gāndhārī, married Jayadratha

 

Duṣaṇa – brother of Khara

 

Dvāpara Yuga – the age when religion and irreligion was on equilibrium

 

Dvārkā – abode of the Yādavas who left Mathurā due to the constant attacks of Jarāsandha

 

Dvārkādhīśa – Lord of Dvārkā; name of Kṛṣṇa