Viveka (Sanskrit: विवेक, translit. Viveka) is a Sanskrit and Pali term translated into English as discernment or discrimination
Viveka, Viveca, or Vivica is a girl’s name of Scandinavian origin meaning “alive, life, or place of refuge”[1] and may also refer to:
People
- Viveca Lindfors (1920–1995), Swedish stage and film actress, and singer
- Viveca Novak, an American journalist who has worked as the editorial and communications director at OpenSecrets since 2011
- Viveca Paulin (born 1969), Swedish actress and auctioneer
- Viveca Serlachius (1923–1993), a Finnish-born Swedish actress
- Viveca Sten (born 1959), Swedish novelist
- Viveca Vázquez, Puerto Rican dancer
- Viveka Babajee (1973–2010), Mauritian model and actress
- Viveka Davis (born 1969), American film and television actress
- Viveka Eriksson or Viveca Eriksson (born 1956), a politician on the autonomous Åland Islands and the former Premier of Åland from 2007 to 2011.
- Viveka (lyricist), Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films
- Viveka Seldahl (1944–2001), Swedish actress
Fictional characters
- Viveca, a character in the 2009 computer-animated fantasy film Barbie and the Three Musketeers
See also
- Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka, an Advaita Vedanta text attributed to Bĥaratī Tīrtha or Vidyaranya Swami
- G. Vivekanand, Indian politician
- Swami Vivekananda (disambiguation)
- Vivek (disambiguation), an Indian masculine given name
- Vivekanandan (disambiguation), an Indian name that is mostly used in South India
- Vivekachudamani, an eighth-century Sanskrit poem in dialogue form that addresses the development of viveka
- Vivekanandan version, a modern version of Akilam, the main religious text of the Tamil belief system Ayyavazhi
- Vivegam, 2017 Indian Tamil-language film by Siva, starring Ajith Kumar
- Vivica A. Fox (born 1964), American actress
References
- ^ “Viveca: Meaning Of Name Viveca”. nameberry.com. Retrieved 2018-08-31.