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

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