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Words Starting with N

 

nāda – sound

 

nādasvaram – a double reeded oboe used in South Indian music

 

nāga – cobra

 

nāgapatnī – the wives of Kāliyā

 

nagara – city

 

nagārā – a set of kettledrums used to accompany shehnai

 

nagara-kīrtana – (Harināma) congregational chanting on the streets of a city

 

Naimiṣāraṇya – the forest where the sages headed by Saunaka gathered to hear Suta Gosvāmī speak read the Bhāgavatam

 

naiṣkarma – another word for akarma

 

Nakula – the son of Pāṇḍu and Madrī and twin brother of Sahadeva; originated from the Aśvina demigods

 

nāla – (dholakī) a barrel drum with a small high pitched head (similar to a tabla’s high pitched head) and a dholak bass; used in folk music

 

Nala – an ape who assisted Rāma in building the bridge across the sea; twin of Nīla

 

Nanda Mahārāja – foster-father of Lord Kṛṣṇa and ruler of the Vraja territory

 

Nandi – the bull servant of Lord Siva

 

Nandigrāma – the outskirt forestland of Ayodhyā were Lord Bharata lived in exile for fourteen years

 

Nārada Muni – the son of Brahmā who travels the worlds singing Lord Nārāyaṇa’s name

 

Nārada Pańcarātra – instructions by Nārada Muni on practicing devotional service to the Lord

 

Narahari – name of Lord Nṛsiḿhadeva

 

naraka – hell

 

Narakāsura – demon killed by Lord Kṛṣṇa

 

Naramitra – son of Nakula and Kareṇumatī

 

Nārāyaṇa – the four-armed form of Lord Viṣṇu; “one that shows mankind the path of devotional service”

 

Narottama Dāsa Thākura – a prominent devotee poet in the Gauḍīya lineage of disciples

 

Nātya-Sāstra – a treatise on elements of music, dance, and stagecraft

 

Navadvīpa – (lit. “the nine islands”)

 

New Vṛndāvana – the first ISKCON farm community established; located in Moundsville, WV, USA

 

Nikumbilā – the family deity of the royal family of Lańkā

 

Nīla – an ape who assisted Rāma in building the bridge across the sea; twin of Nala

 

Nīlakaṇṭha – “blue-throated one”; name of Lord Siva after He drank the poison during the churning of the ocean

 

Nimāī Paṇḍita – Lord Caitanya’s name when He was a young scholar

 

Nimbarka – (Nimbarkācārya) one of the founders of the Kumāra sampradaya

 

nirguṇa – “without attributes/qualities”; in reference to the Supreme Lord signifying that He is beyond material qualities

 

nirjala – “without water”

 

nirvāṇa – freedom from material existence

 

niśāda – 1) the seventh note in the Indian musical scale 2) the tribal class of people

 

nistabdatā – silence

 

Nitāī – see Nityānanda

 

nitya – eternal

 

Nityānanda Prabhu – the incarnation of Lord Balarāma in Kaliyuga to aid Lord Caitanya in the sańkīrtana movement

 

Nṛsiḿha – Lord Kṛṣṇa’s fiercest incarnation as a man-lion to protect Prahlāda Mahārāja

 

Nṛsiḿha pańcaka – the five prayers read by Lord Rāma during His exile when He passed over Ahovala, the abode of Lord Nṛsiḿhadeva

 

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