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DevanagarI +

Lit., “the language or letters of the dêvas” or gods. The characters of the Sanskrit language. The alphabet and the art of writing were kept secret for ages, as the ''Dwijas ''(Twice‐born) and the ''Dikshitas ''(Initiates) alone were permitted to use this art. It was a crime for a. Sudra to recite a verse of the ''Vedas'', and for any of the two lower castes (Vaisya and Sudra) to know the letters was an offence punishable by death. Therefore is the word ''lipi, ''‘‘writing”, absent from the oldest MSS., a fact which gave the Orientalists the erroneous and rather incongruous idea that writing was not only unknown before the day of Pânini, but even to that sage himself That the greatest grammarian the world has ever produced should be ignorant of writing would indeed be the greatest and most incomprehensible phenomenon of all [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Devapi +

A Sanskrit Sage of the race of Kuru, who, together with another Sage (Moru), is supposed to live throughout the four ages and until the coming of ''Maitreya Buddha, ''or ''Kalki ''(the last Avatar of Vishnu) ; who, like all the Saviours of the World in their last appearance, like Sosiosh of the Zoroastrians and the ''Rider ''of St. Johns ''Revelation, ''will appear seated on a ''White Horse''. The two, Devapi and Moru, are supposed to live in a Himalayan retreat called ''Kalapa ''or ''Katapa''. This is a Purânic allegory [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Devarshis +

Lit., “gods rishis” ; the divine or god like saints, those sages who attain a fully divine nature on earth [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Devasarman +

A very ancient author who died about a century after Gautama Buddha. He wrote two famous works, in which he denied the existence of both Ego and non‐Ego, the one as successfully as the other [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Deva‐laya +

“The shrine of a Deva”. The name given to all Brahmanical temples [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Deva‐lokas +

The abodes of the Gods or Devas in superior spheres. The seven celestial worlds above Meru [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dexiphanes +

Vide Sostratus the Cnidian (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#571|11:571]][[SMW::on]]). +

Dey, Koomud Lall +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Dey, Prosonno Coomar +

Secretary of the Punjab Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society at Lahore in 1881. +

Dhame, Dinanath Pandurang +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +

Dhammapada +

In the Khuddaka-Nikaya of the Sutta-Pitaka. SBE, Vol. X (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#571|11:571]][[SMW::on]]). +

Dharana +

That state in Yoga practice when the mind has to be fixed unflinchingly on some object of meditation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharani +

In Buddhism — both Southern and Northern — and also in Hinduism, it means simply a ''mantra ''or ''mantras'' — sacred verses from the ''Rig Veda. ''In days of old these mantras or Dhâranî were all considered mystical and practically efficacious in their use. At present, however, it is the Yogâchârya school alone which proves the claim in practice. When chanted according to given instructions a '''Dhâranî '''produces wonderful effects. Its occult power, however, does not reside in the ''words ''but in the inflexion or accent given and the resulting sound originated thereby. (See “Mantra” and “[[Akasa]]”) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharani Dhar Kauthumi +

Theosophical contributor described in the literature as a chela. Wrote on occult subjects in ''The Theosophist'', including a criticism of Arthur Lillie’s ''Buddha and Early Buddhism''. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] annotated his review of A. Lillie’s book. In a review of Paradoxes of the Highest Science he discussed translator A. O. Hume’s comments on the concept of God. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (30)#157|BCW 6:157-158]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Future Occultist#258|BCW 6:258-260]]) +

Dharma +

The sacred Law; the Buddhist Canon [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharmachakra +

Lit., The turning of the “wheel of the Law”. The emblem of Buddhism as a system of cycles and rebirths or reincarnations [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharmakaya +

Lit., “the glorified spiritual body” called the “Vesture of Bliss”. The third, or highest of the ''Trikâya ''(Three Bodies), the attribute developed by every “Buddha”, i.e., every initiate who has crossed or reached the end of what is called the “fourth Path” (in esotericism the sixth “portal” prior to his entry on the seventh). The highest of the ''Trikâya, ''it is the ''fourth ''of the ''Buddhakchêtra'', or Buddhic planes of consciousness, represented figuratively in Buddhist asceticism as a robe or vesture of luminous Spirituality. In popular Northern Buddhism these vestures or robes are: (1) Nirmanakâya (2) Sambhogakâya (3) and Dharmakâya the last being the highest and most sublimated of all, as it places the ascetic on the threshold of Nirvâna. (See, however, the ''Voice of the Silence, ''page 96, ''Glossary'', for the true ''esoteric ''meaning.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharmaprabhasa +

The name of the Buddha who will appear during the seventh Root‐race. (See “Ratnâvabhâsa Kalpa”, when sexes will exist no longer) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharmasmriti Upasthana +

A very long compound word containing a very mystical warning. “Remember, the constituents (of human nature) originate ''according to the Nidânas, and are‐not ''originally the Self”, which means — that, which the Esoteric Schools teach, and not the ecclesiastical interpretation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dharmasoka +

The name given to the first Asoka after his conversion to Buddhism, — King Chandragupta, who served all his long life “Dharma”, or the law of Buddha. King Asoka (the second) was not ''converted'', but was born a Buddhist [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +