| Word/Term |
Meaning |
| Abadhita: |
With no contradiction of the probandum |
| Abadhitavisayatva: |
Absence of contradiction of the probandum |
| Abhavya: |
One who is incapable of attaining moksa |
| Abadhita:
|
With no contradiction of
the probandum |
| Abadhitavisayatva: |
Absence of contradiction
of the probandum |
| Abhavya: |
One
who is incapable of attaining moksa |
| Abhedavrtti: |
Identifying
by transference of epithet |
| Abhedopacara: |
Making
identical aspect predominant |
| Abhigraha: |
Resolution |
| Abhikshna-Jnanopayoga: |
Ceaseless
pursuit of right knowledge. |
| Abhipsita: |
Desirable |
| Abhiseka: |
Anointing
ceremony |
| Abhyasta: |
Habituated |
| Abhyuhana: |
Process
of understanding |
| Abrahma: |
Unchastity. |
| Abrahma-varjana: |
Abandonment
of all incontinence |
| Acaksurdarsana: |
Perception
by means of the senses other than visual |
| Acara: |
Conduct |
| Acarya: |
Head
of a mendicant group; spiritual leader; monk-scholar |
| Achakshu-darshanavarana: |
Non-Ocular-Conation-Obscuring |
| Acharya-Bhakti: |
Devotion
to Acharyas or Heads of the Orders of Saints. |
| Achetanatva: |
Unconsciousness |
| Adama-nirjara: |
Equanimous
submission to the fruition of karma |
| Adana-niksepana-samiti: |
Care
in the picking up and putting down of any object |
| Adattadana-virati: |
Not
taking anything which has not been given; identical to
asteya-vrata |
| Adeya: |
Impressive;
appearance such as may affect others. |
| Adharma: |
Principle
of Rest |
| Adharma-dravya: |
The
principle of rest |
| Adhigama: |
Preaching
of another. |
| Adhigamaja: |
Grahita |
| Adhikarana: |
Dependance |
| Adhikaraniki-kriya: |
Having
weapons of hurtfulness. |
| Adho-loka: |
The
lower world; the home of infernal beings |
| Adhyavasaya: |
Determinate
cognition |
| Adhyayana: |
Lecture |
| Advaita: |
Non-dual;
cap., the monistic school of Vedanta |
| Agama: |
Scripture;
canonical literature; Verbal
testimony |
| Agamika: |
Non-repetitive |
| Agari: |
House-holders(laymen). |
| Aghatiya: |
Karamas
that generate embodiment and particular conditions
thereof |
| Aghatiya: |
Non-Destructive
karmas |
| Agni: |
Fire |
| Agurulaghu: |
Nor
heavy-light; neither too heavy to move, nor too light to
have stability. |
| Agurulaghutva: |
Capacity
by which one attribute or substance does not become
another and the substance does not lose the attributes
whose grouping forms the substance itself; Individuality; The
quality of constancy in space-points |
| Ahampratyaya: |
Self-awareness |
| Ahara Agrahya-Vargana: |
Assimilation-unrecievable-molecule |
| Ahara-Vargana: |
Assimilation-molecule
for food |
| Aharaka: |
Assimilative; The
spiritual man-like emanation from the head of a saint in
doubt, in the sixth spiritual stage. |
| Aharaka mishra: |
Assimitative
with physical. |
| Aharaparyapti: |
Taking
of morsels of food |
| Aharyaprasanjana: |
Determinate
concomitant |
| Aharyaropa: |
Determinate
concomitant |
| Ahavaniya-agni: |
One
of the sacred fires in the Hindu srauta ritual |
| Ahimsa: |
Nonharming |
| Ahimsavrata: |
Refraining
from harming |
| Ailaka: |
The
highest state of a Digambara layman, wherein he retains
only one piece of clothing |
| Ajinana: |
Ignorance |
| Ajiva: |
Insentient; Non-Living; Non-Soul; Which
is not soul |
| Ajna-vyapadiki-kriya: |
Misinterpreting
the scriptural injunctions, which we do not want to
follow. |
| Ajnana: |
Ignorance-nivartaka-remover; Wrong
belief caused by ignorance. Indiscrimination of good and
bad. |
| Ajnanavada: |
Agnosticism |
| Ajnanika: |
Agnostic.
Everything is not knowable. This is one of the general
attributes of all substances. |
| Ajnavicaya: |
Contemplation
on the teachings of Jina |
| Akama-nirjara: |
Equanimous
submission to the fruition of karma. |
| Akasa: |
Space |
| Akasha: |
Space |
| Akashaya: |
Quasi-passions;
slight or minor passions. |
| Akincitkara: |
Immaterial |
| Akrandana: |
Weeping |
| Akriyavada: |
Doctrine
of non-action |
| Akriyavadi: |
Opposite
of Kriyavadi, e.g., the soul does nothing. This
undermines all truth. |
| Aksa: |
An
organ of sense; Self |
| Aksara: |
Alphabet |
| Aksata: |
Uncooked
rice |
| Aksaya-trtiya: |
The
"immortal third," a Jaina holiday |
| Alarikara: |
Ornamentation |
| Alocana: |
Critical
self-examination; Intuitional cognition |
| Aloka: |
Non-Universe |
| Aloka-akasa: |
Totally
empty space |
| Alokitapana-bhojana: |
Thoroughly
seeing to one's food and drink. |
| Amanaska: |
Without
mind |
| Amari: |
Prohibition
of animal sacrifice |
| Amla: |
Acid. |
| Amsavatara: |
Minor
incarnation of Visnu |
| Amudha drishtitva: |
Free
from superstitious belief. |
| Amudhadrsti: |
Freedom
from delusory notions |
| Amurtatva: |
Along
with Achetanatva, is common to Space, Motion, Rest and
Time; Along
with Chetanatva, is a common attributes of the class of
substance |
| Anabhimata: |
Undesirable |
| Anabhoga: |
Putting
down a thing where it ought not to be put. |
| Anabhogakriya: |
Indifference
in dropping things or throwing oneself down upon the
earth, i.e. without seeing whether it is swept or not. |
| Anabhyupagata: |
Unproved |
| Anadeya: |
Non-impressive;
dull appearance. |
| Anadhyavasaya: |
Indecision |
| Anadhyavasita: |
Neither
known |
| Anadi: |
Having
no beginning |
| Anadinidhana: |
Without
beginning and without end |
| Anagara: |
House-less(ascetics). |
| Anagara-dharma: |
Mendicant
discipline |
| Anaikantika: |
Inconclusive |
| Anaikantikatva: |
Inconclusiveness |
| Anakanksha-kriya: |
Disrespect
to scriptural injunctions out of vice or laziness. |
| Anakaropayoga: |
Formless
conscious activity |
| Anaksara: |
Non-alphabet |
| Anangapravista: |
Main
scriptions |
| Ananta-sukha: |
Infinite
bliss |
| Anantadharma: |
Infinite
aspects |
| Anantajnana: |
Infinite
knowledge; a synonym for kevalajnana |
| Anantanu-Vargana: |
Infinite-atoms-molecule |
| Anantanubandhi: |
Error
feeding; Right-belief
preventing-passions; Wrong-belief-breeding |
| Anantanubandhi-kasaya: |
Passions
that "Pursue from the limitless past,"
preventing the attainment of samyak-darsana |
| Anantaviryatva: |
Infinite
energy |
| Ananugamika: |
Non-following |
| Ananvaya: |
Lacking
in positive concomitance |
| Anarpitabhasa: |
False
unimplied point of view |
| Anarpitanaya: |
Unimplied
view-point |
| Anartha danda-vrata: |
Taking
a vow not to commit purposeless sin |
| Anarthadandavrata: |
Refraining
from the five minor types of evil activity |
| Anasana: |
Fasting |
| Anashana: |
Fasting--external
austerity. |
| Anataraya: |
Obstructive. |
| Anavastha: |
Regressus
ad infinitum |
| Anekantavada: |
The
doctrine of manifold aspects |
| Anekatva: |
Multiplicity |
| Anga: |
Limb;
cap., a group of twelve Jaina canonical texts |
| Angabahya: |
The
subsidiary canon |
| Angapuja: |
Veneration
of the limbs of the lord |
| Angopanga: |
Limbs;
limbs and minor limbs. |
| Anigraha: |
Free
from defect |
| Anindriyaja: |
Non-sensuous,
not caused by senses |
| Anirakrta: |
Not
refuted |
| Anisrita: |
Independent |
| Anitya: |
Impermanent |
| Anitya anupreksha: |
Everything
is subject to change or transitory; Transitoriness |
| Anityavada: |
Noneternalism |
| Anivartin: |
That
state from which there is no returning |
| Anivrtti-karana: |
The
process of suppressing certain mohaniya karmas |
| Anrita: |
Falsehood. |
| Antar-muhurta: |
A
period of up to forty-eight minutes |
| Antara-bhava: |
The
state of existence between death and rebirth |
| Antaratman: |
The
state of perceiving the self within |
| Antaraya: |
Inflow
of obstructive karma; Obstructive |
| Antaraya-karma: |
Karma
that restricts the energy-quality of the soul |
| Antarjalpa: |
Inward
repetition |
| Antarmuhurtta: |
For
a moment |
| Antarmuhurttika: |
A
period of less than forty-eight minutes |
| Antarvyapti: |
Internal
concomitance |
| Antyesti-kriya: |
Funeral
rites |
| Anu: |
Atom;
an indivisible particle of matter |
| Anu Vargana: |
Atom |
| Anu-Vratas: |
Five
minor vows. |
| Anubhaga: |
intensity
of fruition |
| Anubhava: |
Experience; Retribution
of a karma; intensity |
| Anubhaya-mana: |
Neither
true nor false. |
| Anubhaya-vachana: |
Neither
true or false. |
| Anubhuta: |
Cognised,
felt |
| Anugamika (Avadhijnana): |
Following |
| Anugamin: |
Following |
| Anukampa: |
Compassion |
| Anumana: |
Inference |
| Anumanika: |
Inferential |
| Anumati-tyaga: |
Preparatory
to the monk's life. Enjoins a gradual giving up of the
world and retiring into some very quiet place to aquire
the knowledge of truth and ultimately to become fit to be
a teacher of the path to Liberation. |
| Anumatityaga-pratima: |
The
tenth stage in which a layman refrains from all household
activities |
| Anumiti: |
Inference |
| Anupalambha: |
Non-observation |
| Anupatta: |
Matter
which is not taken in by the soul. |
| Anupayoga: |
Not
in actual use |
| Anupayukta: |
Without
attention |
| Anupreksa: |
Reflection,
twelve kinds |
| Anupreksha: |
Meditation. |
| Anupurvi: |
Migratory
form; the power of retaining the form of the last
incarnation during transmigration, i.e., in the passage
from one to another condition of existence. |
