Short answers, pulled from the story.
Translators have rendered the Sanskrit word vijñāna as understanding, knowledge, and intelligence. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan translated the term by English words such as wisdom, intellectual consciousness, and understanding across various texts like the Brihadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanisads.
The Abhidhamma identifies eighty-nine kinds of consciousness categorized by their karmic results. Fifty-four of these states belong to the sense sphere related to the five physical senses as well as craving for sensual pleasure, while fifteen states fall into the fine-material sphere which relates to meditative absorptions based on material objects.
The ālayavijñāna serves as the consciousness basis of everything and has been translated as store consciousness. Every consciousness is based on this store consciousness phenomenon which explains rebirth according to Walpola Rahula who noted that the concept exists in early texts under the term citta.
Sri Ramakrishna defined vijñāna as knowing God distinctly by realizing His existence through an intuitive experience and speaking to Him intimately. He described sages like Narada who cherished love of God after attaining Knowledge of Brahman as possessing ripe knowledge and devotion.
Viññāna is used in modern Thai Buddhism to refer specifically to one's consciousness or life-force after it has left the body at the moment of death. Thais differentiate between winyaan and jid-jai which represents the consciousness while still connected to a living body.