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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
Śāpa —a  brāhmaṇa 's curse.
Śāstras —revealed scriptures.
Śravaṇaṁ kirtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ —the devotional processes of hearing and chanting about Lord Viṣṇu.
Śūdra —a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.
Surabhi cows — See:  Kāmadhenu.
Svāmī —one who controls his mind and senses; title of one in the renounced order of life.
Svāyambhuva-manvantara —the duration of Svāyambhuva Manu's reign, approximately 308,500,000 years.
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Tapasya —austerity; accepting some voluntary inconvenience for a higher purpose.
Tilaka —auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee's body as a temple of the Lord.
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Vaidurya-maṇi —a spiritual gem which can display different colors.
Vaikuṇṭha —the spiritual world.
Vaiṣṇava —a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa.
Vaiśyas —farmers and merchants; the third Vedic social order.
Vānaprastha —one who has retired from family life; the third order of Vedic spiritual life.
Varṇa —the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class, the administrative class, the mercantile class, and the laborer class.
Varṇāśrama —the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual orders.
Vedas —the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Himself.
Viṣṇu, Lord —Kṛṣṇa's expansion for the creation and maintenance of the material universes.
Viṣṇu-tattva —the original Personality of Godhead's primary expansions, each of whom is equally God.
Viṣṇu-yajña —a sacrifice performed for the satisfaction of Lord Viṣṇu.
Vṛndāvana —Kṛṣṇa's personal abode, where He fully manifests His quality of sweetness.