ALL ABOUT YOGA FROM 'D'
Dairghyataa (दैर्घ्यता)- expansion
Dakshina (दक्षिण)- right / offering to the guru during initiation
Dakdhina maarga (दक्षिण मार्ग)- the right hand path of tantra, where one practices sadhana alone in order to attain self realization
Dakshina nauli (दक्षिण नौलि)- one of the shatkarma, contraction of abdominal muscles isolating the rectus abdomini muscles
Dakshina swara (दक्षिण स्वर)- flow of breath through right nostril
Dakshina tantra (दक्षिण तंत्र)- the path of tantra sadhana that excludes pancha tantra and sexual affairs between men and women
Darshana (दर्शन)- seeing / looking / perception / sight / vision / knowledge
Darshinah (दर्शिनः )- the seer
Danda (डंड)- stick
Daurmanasya (दौर्मनस्य)- despair / fickle mindedness
Dehaabhimaanatva (देहाभिमानत्व)- believing that perishable body is the self
Deva (देव)- angel
Devdatta (देवदत्त)- upavaayu that causes yawning and induces sleep
Devayaani (देवयानी)- daughter of sShukracharya, wife of king Yayaati
Dhairya (धैर्य)- courage
Dhammapaada (धम्मपाद)- treatise of Buddhism
Dhananjaya (धनञ्जय)- upavaayu that pervades produces phlegm, nourishes and remains in body after death, inflates the corpse
Dhaarana (धारणा)- 6th limb of Ashtaanga Yoga, concentration / focus / attention
Dharma (धर्म)- religious duty / virtue / first of four aims of life
Dharma magha (धर्म मेघ)- rain-cloud of justice / delightful fragrance of virtue
Dharma parinaama (धर्म परिणाम)- transformation towards virtue
Dharmi (धर्मी)- virtuous / religious
Dhaaric (धार्मिक)- pertaining to dharma
Dhatu (धातु)- constituent elements of body
Dhauti (धौति)- one of the shatkarma, cleansing of the digestive and respiratory tract, also affects eyes and ears.
Dhyana (ध्यान)- meditation
Dhyaanaam (ध्यानजं)- born of meditation
Diksha (दीक्षा)- initiation given by guru
Dipti (दीप्ती)- radiation / brilliancy
Dirgha (दीर्घ)- long
Divya (दिव्य)- divine
Divya chitta (दिव्य चित्त)- divine consciousness
Dosha (दोष)- humours of the body(vata / pitta / kapha)
Drashta (द्रष्टा)- seer
Dridhabhumi (दृढभूमि)- firm ground
Drk (द्रक)- power of consciousness
Drsham / drishyam (दृशं / दृश्यम)- seen object
Drshta ( द्रष्टा)- visible / perceable
Drshtraa (दृष्ट्रा)- the knower / the seer
Drishya (दृश्य)- visible / to be seen
Drshyatvaat (दृश्यत्वात)- on an account of knowability / perceability
Dukha (दुख)- sorrow / pain / grief
Dvaita (द्वैत)- philosophy of the supreme consciousness where one perceives himself separate from supreme soul and aspires for the union of the two
Dvandah (द्वन्दः)- dualities / opposite
Dvesha (द्वेष)- dislike / aversion / hatred
Dwapara yuga (द्वापर युग)- third age or circle of the day of brahma