Krsna Kirtana Songs est. 2001 www.kksongs.org

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Words Starting with J

jaba – the coconut shell used as a pick for the sarod

jagad-guru – “spiritual master of the universe”

Jagannātha – the Deity form of Lord Kṛṣṇa; Lord of the Universe

Jagannātha Miśra – the father of Lord Caitanya

Jagannātha Purī – the city in Orissa bearing the holy temple and Deity of Lord Jagannātha

Jaiva Dharma – a novel by Bhaktivinoda Thākura about spiritual topics

jāla – trap

jala – water

jala tarańga – a xylophone-like instrument with several bowls filled with different amounts of water to give pitches

Jaladuta – the cargo ship through which Srila Prabhupāda traveled to the United States in 1965

Jāmbavanta – the king of bears, son of Brahmā who assisted Lord Rāma, minister of Sugrīva; father of Satyabhāmā, father-in-law of Lord Kṛṣṇa

Janaka – foster-father of Sītā, father-in-law of Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, ascetic-king of the nation Videha

Jānakī – “daughter of Janaka”, Sītā

Janamejaya – son of Parikṣit; conducted a major snake sacrifice; Vyāsadeva intervened and narrated the Mahābhārata to him

Janārdana – name of Lord Kṛṣṇa

Janasthāna – the forest Sītā, Rāma, and Lakṣmaṇa stayed at before their final forest pastimes ended

janma – birth

Jarā – the demoness who took two halves of the baby Jarāsandha together

Jarāsandha – the tyrannical king of Magadha and Kaḿsa’s ally who imprisoned eighty-six kings; killed by Bhīma by Kṛṣṇa’s behest

Jaṭāyu – the great aged vulture who was killed by Rāvaṇa while trying to protect Sītā

jātī – 1) Hindi for “caste” 2) the classification scheme of rhythmic cycles based on the multiplicity resembling one of five classes 3) classification scheme of rāgas based on the number of notes used in both upward and downward scales

Jaya – 1) victory, glories 2) the gatekeeper of Vaikunṭha who was cursed with Vijaya to be born as demons for three births.

Jayadeva Gosvāmī – a twelfth century Vaiṣṇava poet who wrote the Gīta Govinda

Jayadratha – husband of Duśalā; brother-in-law of Duryodhana; king of Sindhu territory

Jhampta – one of the seven original tālams

Jhaptāla – a common rhythmic cycle of ten mātrās

Jharakhaṇḍa – the forest where Lord Caitanya attracted all of the forest animals in the ecstasy of hari-kirtana

Jhumra tāla – an uncommon fourteen beat cycle used in slow performances

Jiṣṇu – one of the names of Arjuna

jīva – (jīvātmā) spirit soul

Jīva Gosvāmī – one of the six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana; author of the Gopāla Campu

jñāna – transcendental knowledge

jñāna yoga – the path of spiritual realization through a speculative philosophical search for truth

jñānī – one practicing jñāna yoga