| Word/Term |
Meaning |
| Kaal: |
Time; Time stages within the
progressive and regressive half-cycles; time as a dravya |
| Kaal (Drvyadigata): |
Periodically |
| Kaal (Kaladigata): |
Time |
| Kaal (Kalakarakadigata): |
Time |
| Kaivalya: |
Pure knowledge |
| Kalanu: |
Time-points |
| Kalatyayapadista: |
Mistimed
(contradicted) |
| Kalikasruta: |
A
Jain scripture |
| Kalpatita: |
Born
in the highest heavenly abodes |
| Kalpopapanna: |
Born
in the kalpa heavens |
| Kalyanaka: |
Auspicious
moments |
| Kanyadana: |
Ceremony
of giving away the bride |
| Kapota-lesya: |
Gray
karmic strain |
| Karaka: |
Case |
| Karana: |
Cause |
| Karana (Hetu): |
Cause |
| Karanantarasakalya: |
Co-operation
of all other causes |
| Karananupalabdhi: |
Non-availability
of the cause |
| Karanatva: |
As
the cause |
| Karanollekha: |
Mention
of instrument |
| Karma: |
Action |
| Karma-bhumi: |
Realm
of action |
| Karma-cetana: |
Consciousness
of oneself as the doer of actions |
| Karma-phala-cetana: |
Consciousness
of oneself as the enjoyer of the karmic fruits |
| Karma-prakrti: |
The
particular form into which karmic matter is
differentiated |
| Karman: |
Action |
| Karmana: |
Karmic |
| Karmana-sarira: |
The
transmigrating body of karmic matter |
| Karmana-Vargana: |
Karmic-molecule |
| Karsapana: |
Coin |
| Karta: |
Agent |
| Karunya: |
Pity,
Compassion for the afflicted. |
| Karya: |
Effect |
| Karya (Hetu): |
Effect |
| Karyanupalabdhi: |
Non-availability
of the effect |
| Kasaya: |
Passions |
| Katha: |
Debate; Narrative literature; Talk |
| Kathora: |
Hard |
| Katuka: |
Bitter |
| Kavala-ahara: |
Food
in morsels; ordinary human food |
| Kaya: |
Movement
by body |
| Kaya klesha: |
Mortification
of the body, so long as the mind is not
disturbed--external austerity |
| Kaya-klesa: |
Mortifications
of the body |
| Kayiki-kriya: |
A
wicked man's readiness to hurt others |
| Kayotsarga: |
Abandonment
of the body, a standing or sitting posture of meditation |
| Kesa-loca: |
The
practice of pulling out one's hair in five handfuls |
| Kevala (Jnana): |
Perfect
knowledge |
| Kevala-darshanavarana: |
Perfect-conation-obscuring |
| Kevala-jnanavarana: |
Perfect-knowledge-obscuring |
| Kevaladarsana: |
Perception
associated with kevalajnana |
| Kevalajnana: |
Knowledge
isolated from karmic obstruction; infinite knowledge;
omniscience; knowledge involving awareness of every
existent in all its qualities and modes |
| Kevalin: |
One
who has attained kevalajnana; a synonym for arhat |
| Kilita samhanana: |
Riveted
bones |
| Klishyamaneshu: |
The
afflicted |
| Komala: |
Soft |
| Krama: |
Sequential Order |
| Kramabhavi: |
Occurring
successively |
| Kramayaugapadya: |
Simultaneity
or order |
| Krishna: |
Black |
| Kriya (Kalpana): |
Activity |
| Kriya naya: |
Point
of view of action |
| Kriyanayabhasa: |
False
point of view of action |
| Kriyas: |
Actions;
a Jaina term for sacred rites |
| Kriyasabda: |
Root
word |
| Kriyavadi: |
Belief
in time, soul, etc., as causing everything in the world; All
the substances perform their functions and become causes
of different effects |
| Krodha: |
Anger |
| Krodha-pratyakhyana: |
Giving
up anger |
| Krsi: |
Farming |
| Krsna-lesya: |
Black
karmic stain |
| Ksama: |
Forgiveness |
| Ksamasramana: |
An
ascetic who suffers with equanimity; title used in
addressing a monk during the ritual fo confession |
| Ksanika: |
Momentary |
| Ksanti: |
Forbearance |
| Ksapana: |
Destruction |
| Ksatriya: |
Member
of a warrior caste |
| Ksaya: |
Destruction |
| Ksayika-samyak-darsana: |
True
insight achieved by the destruction of darsana-mohaniya
karmas |
| Ksayopasama: |
Cessation
and subsidence of karmic veil |
| Ksayopasama-labdhi: |
Attainment
of purity by the destruction-cumsuppression of certain
karmas |
| Ksayopasamika-samyaktva: |
True
insight achievedby the destruction cum-suppression of
darsana-mohaniya karmas; identical to vedakasamyaktva |
| Ksetra: |
Territory |
| Kshanti: |
Forgiveness |
| Kshaya: |
Destruction |
| Ksina-moha: |
Permanent
dissociation from all caritra-mohaniya karmas and from
the passions which they produce, the twelfth gunasthana |
| Ksipra (Matijnana): |
Quick |
| Ksullaka: |
Minor;
junior monk; a Jaina layman on the eleventh pratima; one
who wears three pieces of clothing |
| Kubjaka: |
Hunchback |
| Kula: |
Family |
| Kumara-sramana: |
A
life-long celibate |
| Kundalini-cakra: |
Mystical
centers of psychic energy |
| Kutastha-nitya: |
Eternal
and unchangeable |
