The mudra is also called anjali.

The mudra is also called anjali. It is a devotional gesture made equally before a temple Deity, holy person, friend or momentary acquaintance. The hands held together connects the right side of the body with the left, and brings the nerve and nadi currents into poised balance, into a consciousness of the sushumna, awakening the third eye within the greeter to worship God in the greeted. See: anjali mudra, pranama. namaste: (Sanskrit) "Reverent salutations to you." A traditional verbal greeting.

A form of namas, meaning "bowing, obeisance." See: namaskara. Namo Narayanaya: (Sanskrit) "Salutations to Lord Vishnu." The great mantra of the Vaishnava faith. Also a popular greeting among Vaishnavites and Smartas. See: Vaishnavism, Vishnu. Nandi: (Sanskrit) "The joyful." A white bull with a black tail, the vahana, or mount, of Lord Siva, symbol of the powerful instinctive force tamed by Him.

Nandi is the perfect devotee, the soul of man, kneeling humbly before God Siva, ever concentrated on Him. The ideal and goal of the Siva bhakta is to behold Siva in everything. See: vahana. Nandikeshvara: (Sanskrit) "Lord of Nandi." A name of Siva. Also another name for Nandinatha, the first historically known guru of the Nandinatha Sampradaya. See: Kailasa Parampara, Natha Sampradaya. Nandikeshvara Kashika: (Sanskrit) The only surviving work of Nandikeshvara (ca 250 bce).

Its 26 verses are the earliest extant exposition of advaitic Saivism, aside from the Saiva Agamas. Nandinatha: (Sanskrit) A synonym of Nandikeshvara. See: Kailasa Parampara. Nandinatha Sampradaya: (Sanskrit) See: Natha Sampradaya. Narada Sutra(s): (Sanskrit) A Vaishnava text of 84 aphorisms in which Sage Narada explains bhakti yoga (ca 1200). Narada Parivrajaka: (Sanskrit) An Upanishad of the Atharva Veda which teaches of asceticism, sannyasa, true brahminhood, and more.

Naraka: (Sanskrit) Abode of darkness. Literally, "pertaining to man." The lower worlds. Equivalent to the Western term hell, a gross region of the Antarloka. Naraka is a congested, distressful area where demonic beings and young souls may sojourn until they resolve the darksome karmas they have created. Here beings suffer the consequences of their own misdeeds in previous lives.

Naraka is understood as having seven regions, called tala, corresponding to the states of consciousness of the seven lower chakras as follows: 1) Put, "childless"--atala chakra, "wheel of the bottomless region." Fear and lust (located in the hips).