| WORD | MEANING |
| Vacana: | Statement |
| Vacya-vacaka-bhava: | Relationship of the word and its meaning |
| Vada: | Legitimate discourse |
| Vadara Nigoda Shunya-Vargana: | Gross common-body-indiffrent-molecule |
| Vadara Nigoda-Vargana: | Gross common-body-molecule |
| Vadin: | Proponent |
| Vaggupti: | Preservation of speech. |
| Vaidriyika: | fluid. |
| Vaikalika: | [Texts studied] beyond the prescribed hours |
| Vaikriyika: | Fluid |
| Fluid,the body of hellish and celestial beings, which they can change at will. | |
| Vaikriyika-mishra: | Fluid with karmic. |
| Vainayika-mithyatva: | Mithyatva due to indiscriminate openmindedness |
| Vaineyika: | Religion is identical with veneration of parents, king, etc., e.g., Confucianism. |
| Vairagya: | Aversion leading to renunciation |
| The non-attachment to sense pleasures. | |
| Vaisya: | A member of the merchant caste |
| Vaivahiki-kriya: | The wedding ceremony |
| Vaiyavrittya-karana: | Serving the meritorious.. |
| Vaiyavritya: | Service of the saints or worthy people--internal austerity. |
| Vaiyavrttya: | Respectful service |
| Vajra Diamond: | Adamantine |
| Vajra-naracha-Samhanana: | Adamantine, joints and bones. |
| Vajra-rishabha-aracha-Samhanana: | Adamantine, nerves, joints and bones. |
| Vakprayoga: | Statement |
| Vakya: | Sentence |
| Valaya: | Layer of teh atmosphere |
| Vamana: | Dwarf. |
| Vanaspati-kaya: | Plant beings |
| Vanavasi: | Forest dweller |
| Vandana: | Reverent salutation |
| Vang: | Movement by speech |
| Vardhamana (Avadhi): | Augmenting |
| Varna: | Caste hierarchy/ class; color; a quality of matter |
| Color. | |
| Letters | |
| Varna-vyavastha: | Class/ caste system |
| Varnalabha: | Ritual celebrating the establishment of a new household by a married son |
| Varsa: | Continent |
| Varuni-dharana: | A process of meditational "cleansing," accompanied with the water element. |
| Vasana: | Memory impression |
| Trace | |
| Vastu: | Real |
| Vastutva: | capacity by which a substance has a fuction. |
| Functionality | |
| Vatsalya: | Disinterested affection |
| Tender affection for one's brother on the path of Liberation. | |
| Vayu-kayika: | Air-bodies |
| Veda: | Sex-consciousness |
| Sexual feelings | |
| Vedaka-samyaktva: | A synonym for ksayopasamika-samyaktva |
| Vedaniya: | Feeling Karma |
| Vedaniya-karma: | Karma responsible for mundane experience of pain and pleasure |
| Vibhava: | Defiled; impure |
| Vibhu: | All-pervasive |
| Vicara: | Shifting attention from one mode to another |
| Vidarana-kriya: | Proclaiming other's sins. |
| Vidhana: | Ritual |
| Vidhi: | Positively |
| Vidhi-sadhaka (Hetu): | Positive, which proves something positive |
| Vidhikalpana: | Positive aspect |
| Vidhirupa (Hetu): | Positive |
| Vidya: | The arts |
| Vigraha-gati: | Movement of a soul to its new destiny |
| Vihayogati: | Movement; capacity of moving in space. |
| Vijigisu: | Who wants victory |
| Vikala-pratyaksa: | Partial perception |
| Vikaladesa: | Partial reference |
| Vikalpa: | Idea |
| Vikalpa-prasiddhatva: | Optional |
| Vikalpa-siddha: | Optionally proved |
| Vikalpagamya: | Optional knowledge |
| Vikalpatmika: | Optional only |
| Vikrti: | Defiled modification |
| Vimochitavasa: | Residence in a deserted place. |
| Vinaya: | Reverence to the elders Reverence--internal austerity. |
| Veneration. | |
| Vinaya-sampannata: | Reverence for means of Liberation and for those who follow them. |
| Vipaka: | Karmic retribution |
| Vipakavicaya: | Meditation on karmic fruition |
| Vipaksa: | Heterologous |
| Vipaksabadhaka-pramana: | Proof which obstructs the opponent's view |
| Vipaksasattva: | Presence in heterologous cases |
| Viparita: | Contradictory |
| Perverse belief, e.g., animal sacrifices lead to heaven. | |
| Viparita-mithatva: | Perverted or incorrect view |
| Viparitaropa: | Contrary imposition |
| Viparyaya: | Error |
| Vipulamati: | Ample intelligence |
| Vira-nirvana: | Beginning of the Jaina era; death [anniversary] of Mahavira |
| Virodha: | Contradiction |
| Virodhi-himsa: | Injury generated by standing in |
| Virodhi-himsa: | opposition to an enemy |
| Virodhi-sanka: | Doubt of the opponent |
| Viruddha: | Contradictory |
| Viruddha sahacaranupalambha: | Non-availability of the concomitant contradictory to the probandum |
| Viruddha-dharmadhyasa: | Which imposes the opposite quality |
| Viruddha-karyanupalambha: | Non-availability of the effect contradictory to the probandum |
| Viruddha-svabhavanupalambha: | Non-availability of the nature contradictory to the probandum |
| Viruddha-vyapakanupalambha: | Non-availability of the determinant concomitant contradictory to the probandum |
| Viruddhakarananupalambha: | Non-availability of the cause contradictory to the probandum |
| Viruddhanupalabdhi: | Non-availability of the contradictory |
| Viruddhopalabdhi: | Availability of the contradictory |
| Virya: | Energy |
| Virya Antaraya: | obstructive of power of exercise of one's capacities. |
| Viryantaraya: | Energy-obstruction |
| Visadrsa: | Dissimilar |
| Visamvada: | Wrangling, etc., wrong-belief, envy, back-biting, self-praise, censuring others, etc., and causes a bad-body-making karma. |
| Visani: | An animal possessed of horns |
| Visesa-darsana: | Particular observation |
| Visesavamarsa: | Inference of the particular |
| Vishesha-guna: | Special Attributes |
| Visistapratyaksa: | Qualified direct perception |
| Visuddhi: | Purity |
| Vitaraga: | Free from passion; an epithet for an arhat |
| Vivaksa: | Aspect emphasized by a speaker |
| Vivarta: | Mode |
| Vivartavada: | The theory of illusory causation in monistic Vedanta |
| Vivikta-sayyasana: | Solitary place of rest |
| Vivikta-shayyasana: | Sitting and sleeping in a lonely place, devoid of animate beings--external austerity. |
| Vrata: | Restraint |
| Vow. | |
| Vrata-pratima: | The second stage where a layman assumes the anuvratas |
| Vratyanukampa: | Compassion for the vowers. |
| Vrishyeshta rasa-tyaga: | Renouncing of exciting and aphrodisiac food or drinks. |
| Vritti-parisankhyana: | Taking a mental vow to accept food from a house-holder, only if a certain dition is fulfilled, without letting anyone know about the vow--external austerity. |
| Vrtti: | Subcommentary |
| Vrtti-parisamkhyana: | Limiting the extent of one's begging rounds |
| Vyabhicara: | Contradiction |
| Vyabhicarin: | One who contradicts |
| Vyanjana: | That which manifests |
| Vyanjana (Aksarasruta): | Consonant |
| Vyanjanaksara (Sruta): | Alphabet |
| Vyanjanaparyaya: | Manifest modes |
| Vyanjanavagraha (Mati): | Contact-awareness |
| Vyantaravasi: | The peripatetic gods |
| Vyapaka: | Determinant concomitant |
| Vyapakanupalabdhi: | Non-av of the determinant concomitant |
| Vyapti: | Necessary concomitance |
| Vyaptigraha: | Cognition of the concomitance |
| Vyaptigrahana: | Cognition of the concomitance |
| Vyaptijnana: | Knowledge of necessary concomitance |
| Vyapya: | Determinate concomitant |
| Vyapya (Hetu): | Determinate concomitant |
| Vyapyopalabdhi: | Availability of concomitant |
| Vyatikrama: | Disturbed order |
| Vyatireka: | Disagreement |
| Vyatireka-dharma: | Disagreement |
| Vyavahara: | Convention; appropriate proceedings Practical |
| Vyavahara (Naya): | Empirical |
| Vyavaharabhasa: | False empirical point of view |
| Vyavaharika: | Empirical |
| Vyavasayin: | Definitive |
| Vyaya: | Decay |
| Goes out of existance. | |
| Loss; disappearance | |
| Vyuparatakriya-anivartin: | Absolute nonmotion |
| Vyutpattinimitta: | Etymological |
| Vyutsarga: | Giving up attachment to the body, etc.--internal austerity. |
| Renunciation of egoistic thoughts |