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Glossary

T
Tamas, tamo-guṇa—ignorance, one of the three guṇas or modes of
material nature. See Guṇa.
Tapasya—religious austerity.
Tilaka—an auspicious clay-marking on the forehead of a person that

signifies his adherence to a particular sampradāya.
Tithi—a lunar day.
Tīrtha—a holy place.
Tīrtha-yātrā—pilgrimage.
Tri-kāla—the three phases of time: past, present and future.
Tulasī—a pious plant worshipped by devotees of Lord Viṣṇu.
Tulasī Dāsa—a poet who retold the Rāmāyaṇa for Hindi-speaking
devotees.

U

Uddhava—Lord Kṛṣṇa’s cousin, minister, and great devotee.
Upaniṣads—auxiliary Vedic texts that are philosophical treatises.
Uttar Pradesh—a state in present North India.

V
Vaikuṇṭha—the spiritual abode of Lord Viṣṇu.
Vaiṣṇava—a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu. See also: Viṣṇu-bhakta.
Vaiśya—a farmer or merchant, a member of the third occupational
division of Vedic society.
Vaitaraṇī—the river that divides material and spiritual worlds.
Vālmīki—an ancient sage and author of the Rāmāyaṇa, the pastimes
of Lord Rāma.
Vāmana, Lord—an incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu in the form of a
brāhmaṇa boy.
Vānaprastha—(the third stage, or āśrama, in the Vedic social

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