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| Word | Meaning |
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| Abadhita | With no contradiction of the probandum |
| Abhavya | One who is incapable of attaining moksa |
| Abadhitavisayatva | Absence of contradiction of the probandum |
| 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. |
| Anabhoga-kriya: | 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. |