Glossary of Indian Occult Terms
Every Sanskrit and Hindi term used across OccultGuide, with its Devanagari spelling, IAST transliteration, and a plain-English definition — 846 in all, organized alphabetically below.
How this glossary is built
Every entry here was written while reading a specific source, not compiled from a word list. When a term appears in one of our notes it is marked up by hand, so a definition is only ever attached to a passage a human decided it belonged to — nothing on this site auto-matches a term's spelling to text. That matters in a vocabulary this transliteration-heavy, where Kali the goddess, Kali the cosmic age and kali in kali mirch (black pepper) are three unrelated words that look identical in English.
Definitions describe how our sources use a term, which is not always how a dictionary or a different lineage would. Where a term has a page of its own on this site, its entry links there; where it doesn't, its letter page below is the only place it's defined.
- Terms
- 846
- Categories
- 15
- With a topic page
- 496
results
Searching…