Shanti

Shanti or Shanthi may refer to:

In Sanskrit

• Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress
• Kshanti, one of the paramitas of Buddhism
• Shanti Mantras or "Peace Mantras", Hindu prayers or sacred utterances believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers
• Shanti Parva, a book of the Mahabharata

People

• Shanthi (actress), Indian actress
• Shanthi (choreographer), Indian choreographer and actress
• Shanti Devi (1926–1987), Indian woman at the center of a case of supposed reincarnation
• Shanti Devi (Uttar Pradesh politician) (born 1937), Indian politician
• Shanti Roney (born 1970), Swedish actor
• Shanti Snyder (born 1981), Japanese/English lyricist, singer, songwriter, and music TV host
• Oliver Shanti (born 1948), New Age musician
• Shanti Wintergate, musician/writer
• Shanthi Krishna (born 1960), Tamil and Malayalam movie actress
• Shanthi Lekha or Rita Irene Quyn (1929–2009), Sri Lankan actress
• Santhi Soundarajan or Santhi Soundararajan (born 1981), Indian athlete
• Princess Shanti Singh of Nepal (1940–2001), princess of Nepal and queen of Bajhang
• Chaikra Shanti Maximus, Belgian fashion model
• Shanti Pereira, Singaporean sprinter
• Shantipriya, Indian actress

Characters

• A protagonist of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's 1882 novel Anandamath
• A character in the 2003 Disney cartoon The Jungle Book 2
• A character in the 1990 film Agneepath
• Shanti Priya, a character in the 2007 Indian film Om Shanti Om

Film and television

• Shanti (TV series), a 1994 Indian television series
• Shanti Shanti Shanti, a 1998 Indian Kannada-language film
• Shanti (film), a 2004 Indian film starring Bhavana
• Santhi (1965 film), a 1965 Indian film
• An important term in the 2006 film Children of Men

Music

• Shanti (band), an Indian-American group of the early 1970s
• Shanti (Hitomi Shimatani album), 2002
• Shanti (Aiko Kitahara album), 2007
• ”Shanti” a song by Don Cherry from the 1977 album Hear & Now
• "Om Shanti" a song by Alice Coltrane from the 1987 album Divine Songs
• "Shanti", a song by Banco de Gaia from the 1994 album Maya
• "Shanti", a song by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones from the 1998 album Left of Cool
• "Shanti / Ashtangi", a 1998 song by Madonna from the album Ray of Light
• "Shanti" (song), a 2002 single by Hitomi Shimatani
• "Shanti", a song by Ferry Corsten from the 2008 album Twice in a Blue Moon
• "Shanti Shanti Shanti", a song by Babymetal from the 2019 album Metal Galaxy
• "Shanti", a song by Lexie Liu from the 2022 album The Happy Star

Other uses

• Shanthi (elephant) (1975-2020), Asian elephant gifted to the United States by Sri Lanka in 1976
• Shantinatha, 16th Jain Tirthankara
• Shanti Project, a group providing support and guidance for people with life-threatening illnesses
• Shanthi Nagar or Shanthi Nagar Colony, a colony of Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh
• Shanti Stupa, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
• Shanti Theatre, a movie theatre in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

See also

• "Shantih shantih shantih", a well-known phrase in the final line of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land"
• Santi (disambiguation)
• Shanty (disambiguation)
• Shantha (disambiguation)
• Sant (disambiguation)
• Shant (disambiguation)
• Ashanti (disambiguation)