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| Word | Meaning |
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| Madhu | Honey |
| Madhura | Sweet. |
| Madhya-loka | Middle of terrestrial world |
| Madhyasthya | Tolerance or indifference to those who are uncivil or ill-behaved. |
| Madya | Alcohol |
| Maha-Skandha-Vargana | Great-molecule-molecule |
| Mahana | Prakrit for Sanskrit brahmana |
| Mahavira-jayanti | Birth anniversary of Mahavira |
| Mahavrata | The five great vows of a mendicant |
| Maitri | Benevolence for all living beings. |
| Mamsa | Flesh; meat |
| Mana | Movement by mind. |
| Pride | |
| Manah-paryaya | Psychic mode |
| Manah-paryaya (Jnana) | Intuition of the modes of other minds Telepathy |
| Manah-paryaya-darsana | Intuition of the psychic mode |
| Manahparyaya-jnanavarana | Mental-knowledge-obscuring. |
| Manahparyayajnana | Direct awareness of thought forms of others without the aid of mind or senses |
| Manas | Mind |
| Manasatva | Mental cognition |
| Manastambha | A characteristic Jaina pillar |
| Mano Agrahya-Vargana | Mind-unreceivable-molecule |
| Mano-Vargana | Mind-molecule |
| Manodravya | Mind substance |
| Manogupti | Preservation of mind. |
| Manojanma | Born of mind |
| Manojanya | Born of mind |
| Mantra | Holy litany |
| Manushya | Human. |
| Manushya Anupurvi | Human–Migratory form. |
| Manushya-Ayu | Human-age-karma |
| Manushyayu | Human age. |
| Manusya | Human being |
| Manusya-gati | Human destiny |
| Marga prabhavana | Propagation of the path of Liberation. |
| Masi | Ink; writing |
| Mastakabhiseka | Head-anointing [ceremony] |
| Mati (Jnana) | Perceptual |
| Mati-jnanavarana | Sensitive-knowledge-obscuring. |
| Matijana | Mind-based knowledge |
| Maulahetu | Original cause |
| Maya | Causes inflow of sub-human age karma |
| Cheating others, preaching the false doctrines, etc. Deceit |
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| Deceit. | |
| Maya-shalya | The thorn of deceit. |
| Mayakriya | Deceitful disturbance of some one’s right knowledge and faith. |
| Mayavada | Illusionism |
| Mithya (Sruta) | FALSE |
| Mithya-drsti | Perverted vision |
| Mithya-shalya | The thorn of wrong-belief. |
| Mithyadarsana | Synonymous with mathyadrsti and mithyatva |
| wrong-belief | |
| Mithyadrsti | Incorrect view of reality |
| Mithyatva | Lack of insight; |
| wrong belief. | |
| synonymous with mithyadarsana |
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| synonymous with mithyadrsti |
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| Mithyatva-kriya | Action which strengthens wrong belief, e.g., superstition, etc. |
| Mohaniya | Deluding |
| Mohaniya-karma | Karma that prevents the true perception of reality and the purity of the soul; karma that defiles the bliss-quality of the soul |
| Moksa | Liberation |
| Salvation; emancipation from the cycle of birth and death |
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| Moksa-marga | The path of salvation |
| Moksha | Liberation |
| The total separation of Soul from the bondage of all matter |
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| Muh-patti | A small piece of cloth worn over the mouth by Sthanakavasi mendicants to protect airbodies from harm |
| Mukta | The Liberated Soul. |
| Mula Guna | a kind of production of the dependance relating to the non-soul, i.e., of the body, speech, mind and respiration. |
| Mulagunas | The eight basic restraints of a Jaina layman |
| Mulasutra | A group of texts belonging to the subsidiary canon |
| Muni | Mendicant; sage |
| Murccha | Delusion |
| Murtatva | Along with Achetanatva, is common to Matter. |
| Materiality |