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Shanti 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
Real
- 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 (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
 
Fictional
- A protagonist of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's 1882 novel Anandamath
 - A character in the 2003 Disney cartoon The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
 - A character portrayed by Archana Puran Singh in Agneepath (1990 film)
 - Shanti Priya, a character portrayed by Deepika Padukone in the 2007 Indian film Om Shanti Om
 
Animals
- Shanthi (elephant) (1975-2020), Asian elephant gifted to the United States by Sri Lanka in 1976
 
Music
- Shanti (band), an Indian-American group of the early 1970s
 - Shanti People, a band that mixes electronic dance music with Vedic mantras
 - Shanti (Hitomi Shimatani album), 2002
 - Shanti (Aiko Kitahara album), 2007
 - "Shanti" (song), a 2002 single by Hitomi Shimatani
 - :Shanti / Ashtangi", a 1998 song by Madonna from the album Ray of Light
 - "Shanti Shanti Shanti", a song by Babymetal from the 2019 album Metal Galaxy
 - "Shanti", a song by Ferry Corsten from the 2008 album Twice in a Blue Moon
 - "Shanti", a song by Banco de Gaia from the 1994 album Maya
 - Béla Fleck/Jeff Coffin composition from the 1998 album Left of Cool
 - "Om Shanti" a song by Alice Coltrane from the 1987 album Divine Songs
 - ”Shanti” a song by Don Cherry from the 1977 album Hear & Now. The song also appears as “Om Shanti Om” on the 2020 album by the same name
 - “Shanti” a song by Lexie Liu on her 2022 album The Happy Star
 
In the media
- 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
 
Other uses
- 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
 - Shanti Anantam Ashram, founded by Swamini Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda where she served as spiritual director
 
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)
 
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