340 Srimad-Bhagavatam

Sraddha—ritualistic ceremony of offering oblations to one’s deceased ances-

_ _ tors to free them from possible hellish conditions in their next lives.

Sravanam kirtanath visnoh—the devotional processes of hearing and

_ chanting about Lord Visnu.

Siidra—a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.

Svami—one who controls his mind and senses; title of one in the renounced
order of life.

T

Tantras—Vedic literatures consisting mostly of dialogues between Lord Siva
and Durga.

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.

Vv

Vaikuntha—the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.

Vaisnava—a devotee of Lord Visnu, or Krsna.

Vaisyas—farmers and merchants; the third Vedic social order.

Vanaprastha—one who has retired from family life; the third order of Vedic
spiritual life.

Varnas—the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class, the
administrative class, the mercantile and agricultural class, and the
laborer class.

Varnasrama—the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual
orders.

Vedas—the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Himself.

Visnu, Lord—Krsna’s first expansion for the creation and maintenance of
the material universes.

Visnuditas—the messengers of Lord Visnu who come to take perfected de-
votees back to the spiritual world at the time of death.

Vrndavana—Krsna’s personal abode, where He fully manifests His quality
of sweetness.

Vyasadeva—Krsna’s incarnation, at the end of Dvapara-yuga, for compiling
the Vedas.
