WORD

Anutseka:

Not being proud of one's own achievement or attainments.

Anuvichi-bhashana:

Speaking in accordance with scriptural injunctions.

Anuvratas:

Minor vows pertaining only to laypeople

Anuyoga:

Exposition; a group of postcanonical texts

Anvaya:

Concomitance in agreement

Anvayadharma:

Quality

Anyatarasiddha:

Unproved for either of the two

Anyathanupapatti:

Logical impossibility in the absence of the other

Anyatva anupreksha:

Sepatateness. Otherness. The world, my relations and friends, my body, and mind, they are all distinct and separate from my real self.

Apadhyana:

Thinking ill of others.

Apara (Samgrahanaya):

Non-ultimate (generic)

Aparamarthika:

Empirical

Aparigraha:

Nonpossession

Aparinamin:

Unchanging

Aparyapti:

Undevelopable; Incapable of developing the body fully.

Aparyavasita (Srutajnana):

Having no end

Apavartana:

Energy that hastens the time and decreases the intensity of karmic fruition

Apaya:

Perceptual judgment

Apayavicaya:

Contemplation on the means by which beings can be saved

Apo-kayika:

Water-bodies

Apradhanacarya:

Nominal acarya

Apramanatva:

Invalidity

Apramatta-virata:

Restraint not vitiated by carelessness, the seventh gunasthana

Apramatva:

Non-organ of knowledge

Aprapyakaritva:

The quality of acting from distance

Apratipatina:

Non-extinguishing

Apratita:

Neither known

Apratya Vekshita:

Putting down a thing without seeing.

Apratyakhyana-kriya:

not renouncing what ought to be renounced.

Apratyakhyanavarana:

Obstructors of partial renunciation

Apratyakhyanavaraniya:

Partial vow-preventing passions including anger, pride, deceit and greed.

Aprayojaka:

Immaterial

Apta:

Authentic

Apta-vacana:

Statement of an authentic personality

Apurva-karana:

The process by which the soul attains to an unprecedented degree of purity

Arahamta:

Prakrit for arhat

Arambha:

Commencement of a thing - compare attempt in Criminal Law.

Arambha-tyaga:

Abandonment of merely worldly engagements and occupations.

Arambhatyaga-pratima:

The eighth stage in which a layman withdraws from all professional commitments

Arambhaya-himsa:

Violence occurring either accidentally or through the performance of an acceptable occupation

Arapa:

Hot light; radiant heat; possessed of a brilliant body, which is hot to others but not to the possessor, as the gross radiant earth bodied beings in the sun.

Arati:

Displeasure in regard to sense activities dissatisfaction.

The lamp-waving ceremony

Arcana:

Worship

Ardha naracha samhanana:

Semi-unbreakable joints and bones.

Ardha-phalaka:

Loincloth worn by Svetambara monks

Ardha-pudgala-paravartana-kala:

The amount of time required for a soul to take in and use up half of the available karmic matter in the universe

Arghya:

Respectful offering

Arham:

Identical to arhat

Arhat:

Worthy to worship; an epithet of one who has attained kevalajnana; a synonym for kevalin

Arhat Kevali:

Omniscient Lord

Arhat-Bhakti:

Devotion to Arhats or Omniscient Lords.

Arihamta:

A variant for arahamta

Arpitanaya:

Implied point of view

Arpitanayabhasa:

False implied point of view

Artha:

Meaning of a word

Artha (Kaladigata):

Object

Artha-kriya:

Exercise of casual efficiency

Artha-kriyasamartha:

Capable of performing any action

Artha-naya:

Point of view of meaning

Artha-nayabhasa:

False point of view of meaning

Artha-paryaya:

Mode of the object

Artha-prapakatva:

Conveyance of the sense

Artha-pratipadaka:

Support of truth

Artha-samvedana:

Manifested in the statement

Arthavagraha (Matijnana):

Object-awareness

Arupi-ajiva:

The four insentient, formless dravyas

Aryika:

Nuns of the Digambara sect

Asad guna udbhavana:

proclaiming in oneself the good qualities which one does not possess.

Asamgrahika (Naigamanaya):

Non-generic

Asamjni:

Unable to reason about spiritual matters

Asamkhyata:

Innumerable

Asamprapta sripatika samhanana:

Loosely jointed bones.

Asamyama:

Nonrestraint

Asankyatanu-Vargana:

Innumerable-atoms-molecule

Asarira:

Free from embodiment; a siddha

Asat-khyati:

Knowledge of a non-existent thing

Asata-vedaniya:

Pain-feeling; that which brings pain. The inflow of pain-bringing-feeling

Asata, Asatavedaniya:

Experience of pain

Asatana:

Disrespect

Asatavedaniya:

Unpleasant-feeling

Asatpratipaksatva:

Non-conclusive

Asatva:

Non-existence

Asatya:

Lying

Asatya mana:

False mind

Asatya-Vachana:

FALSE

Ascarya:

Extraordinary event

Asharana anupreksha:

Unprotectiveness; helplessness. The soul is unprotected from the fruition of karmas. Death, pain, pleasure, success, failure are the necessary results of our acts in this or past lives.

Ashrava:

Inflow

The attraction of good or bad matter by the soul in virtue of its mental, vocal, or bodily activity.

Ashrava anupreksa:

Inflow. The inflow of karma is the cause of my mudane existence and it is the product of passions, etc.

Ashubha:

Ugly (body).

Ashubha-nama:

A Bad-body-making karma

Ashuchi anupreksha:

Impurity. The body is impure and dirty.

Asi:

Sword; government

Asiddha (Hetvabhasa):

Non-existence

Asiddhata:

Unproved state

Asiddhatva:

Non-existent

Asiddhi:

Whose existence cannot be proved

Aspasta:

Indistinct

Asrava:

Karmic influx

activities inviting the karmic matter into the soul.

Asraya:

Substratum

Astanga:

Eight limbs (of samyak-darsana)

Asteya:

Not stealing

Asthira:

(unsteady circulation of blood, etc.).

Asti-kaya:

Having extension

Astikya:

Affirmation

Astitva:

Existence

Asubha-karma:

Unwholesome karma

Asva:

Horse

Aticara:

Infractions committed by accident

Atidesavakya:

Analogical sentence

Atisaya-ksetra:

Places where miraculous events associated with great monks have occurred

Atithi-samvibhaga:

Sharing with (ascetic) guests

Taking a vow to take one's food only after feeding the ascetivs with a part of it.

Ativyapti:

Undesirable extension

Atma ninda:

denouncing one's self

Atma prashansa:

Praising oneself

Atman:

Soul; self

Atmanubhava:

Abiding in one's own nature

Atmarthatva:

Meant for the self

Atmarupa (Kaladigata):

Form

Atmasad-guna uchchhadana:

not proclaiming one's own good qualities.

Attara guna:

A kind of production of the dependance relating to the non-soul, i.e., production of books, pictures, statues, etc.

Audarika:

Physical

The physical body of all men and animals.

Audarika mishra:

Physical with karmic.

Audarikasarira:

Gross-body of Lord

Aupapadika:

Born spontaneously

Aupasamika:

Subsidence

Aushbha:

Awkward.

Avadhi (Jnana):

Clairvoyance

Avadhi-darshanavarana:

Visual-conation-obscuring.

Avadhi-jnanavarana:

Visual-knowledge-obscuring

Avadhidarsana:

The indistinct type of awareness preceding avadhijnana

Avadhijnana:

Supermundane knowledge such as clairvoyance

Avagaha:

Penetrability

Avagraha (Matijnana):

Determinate perception

Avaharana:

Distinguishing

Avaktavya:

Indescribable

Inexpressible

Avamaudarya:

Eating only a very small portion of food

Avamodarya:

Eating less than one's fill, or less than one has appetite for--external austerity.

Avantara samanya:

General substance

Avapodvapa:

Elimination and addition

Avarana:

The veil

Avarana ksaya:

Destruction of veil

Avaraniya:

Obscuring

Avarnavada:

Causes the right-belief-deluding karmic matter(Darshana).

Avasarpini:

Descending round

Regressive half-cycle

Avashyaka-parihari:

Not neglecting one's six important daily duties

Avastu-nirbhasa:

Dealing with no object

Avasyaka:

Essential duty

Avaya (Matijnana):

Perceptual judgment

Avayava:

Part

Avicyuti:

Absence of lapse

Avidya:

Ignorance

Avinayeshu:

Those who are uncivil or ill-behaved. ??????

Avipaka-nirjara:

Inducing a karma to leave the soul by means of a contrary karma, or by means of ascetic practices.

Avirata:

Vowlessness, non-renunciation. Vowlessness.

Avirati:

Nonrestraint

Aviruddhanupalabdhi (Hetu):

Non-availability of non-contradictory

Aviruddhopalabdhi (Hetu):

Availability of non-contradictory

Avisamvadakatva:

Non-discrepancy

Avisvagbhava:

All-pervasiveness

Aviveka:

Lack of discrimination

Avrta:

Obscured

Avyakta:

Indeterminate

Avyaktaksara:

Indistinct sound

Ayaga-pata:

Votive slabs

Ayariya:

Prakrit for acarya

Ayashah kirti:

Notoriety; bringing bad name, even if one does good actions.

Ayoga-kevalin:

The fourteenth gunasthana, attained by the kevalin when, in the instant before death, all his activities cease

Ayu:

Age-karma

age.

Ayu-karma:

Karma that determines the span of a given lifetime