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| WORD | MEANING |
|---|---|
| Aabhaasa | Fallacy (Bhrama) |
| Aabhinibodhika gnaana | Sensory knowledge; Matignaana |
| Aabhushan | ornament |
| Aachaar Mimaanshaa | ethics |
| Aachaara | behavior, conduct; good conduct; sacred precept; rules of conduct prescribed by the scriptures or some authority; good manners, practice |
| Aachaarya | Minister and Head of mendicants; Head ascetic of the holy order of the Jainas; The head of the order of the saints (Sadhus); Supreme head of all saints or ascetics; A Sadhu who has learnt, mastered, taught religious scriptures, follows them, and is now the head of a Sangh; Head of a mendicant group, spiritual leader and monk-scholar |
| Aacharan | conduct, behavior; character, practice, action, putting into execution |
| Aacharana | Practice dharmaacharana i.e. religion |
| Aacharvu | To conduct |
| Aadaan-pradaana | Give and Take |
| Aadaana | Property; Assimilation (mixing); Accept |
| Aadaana bhaya | Fear of property theft |
| Aadaana nikshepana samiti | (1) Actions careful to others; (2) Careful in lifting and laying down; (3) Carefulness in taking and placing things; (4) Carefulness in putting clothes and other things on (5) Carefulness in laying and receiving To receive and place any thing whatsoever after a proper inspection and proper cleansing of dust etc – Adaan Nikshepan Samiti |
| Aadaataa | recipient |
| Aadanda | Sinless activity |
| Aadara | Adore; Respect, honor |
| Aadarniya | deserving respectful treatment, respectable |
| Aadarvu | begin, undertake; receive; respect, honor; welcome; court. |
| Aadesh | order, command; directive; advice; [gr.] substitution of a letter or word for another; [math.] substitution. |
| Aadesh vashaat | subject to spoken words |
| Aadhaar | container, supporter, support, prop; refuge; proof; ground, basis; [phys.] fulcrum; [gram.] receptacle, location, sense of the locative case |
| Aadhaar aadhey sambandh | mutual dependent relationship, relationship of container and contained |
| Aadhaarabhuta | Authentic;Authoritative; Reliable |
| Aadheya | contained, supported |
| Aadhi | Mental distress (one of Adhi, Vyadhi and Upadhi trio term Aadhi – mental worry, Vyadhi – suffering from disease and Upadhi – problem of old age) mental anguish, psychological illness |
| Aadhina | Subjugated; Obedient; Submission; Dominate |
| Aadi | With beginning;Beginingful. first, of the beginning, initial; chief, premier; original; of the earliest time; beginning; primary, original, cause; [math.] first term. |
| Aadi purush | first progenitor or ancestor of a clan or family; Vishnu; Brahma, the Creator. |
| Aadiman | With beginning;Beginingful. |
| Aadinaatha Risabha | The first tirthankara of the Jaina order, who was not only the first monarch on earth, but was first in all respects, because of which he is called Adinaatha, or Lord of Genesis. He taught men arts and crafts and gave them the first Canons and the Brahmi script. |
| Aadinnadana | See Adattadana |
| Aaditya | the sun; any one of the twelve sons of Aditi; the number twelve (12). |
| Aadodaai | crookedness; obstinacy, waywardness; intransigence |
| Aadya | first; primeval; original |
| Aagaar | exceptions |
| Aagam padddhati | where there is description of transmigration and also karma bondage. auspicious, inauspicious, inflow bondage and non living description comes then it is known as agam paddhati. In Aagam paddhati there is karma related description comes. ( parmarth vachanika chapter 4 aagam and adhyaatma mein anantata). The non living material karma and with the association of it there is inclination of infatuation in the soul is known as karma paddhati or aagam paddhati. This is the pathway to transmigration. According to Niyamsaar ( page 24 in Kaaran Shuddh paryaay book) aagam paddhati means it is the one which deals with the transient nature of the mode. Soul has capacity in its mode to make deluded state. This information is there in aagam paddhati. |
| Aagama | Jain Scripture; Jain Canonical literature; Original Scriptures of Jain Religion; It is testimony of an authority that is pure and perfect; It is aptavachana; Verbal testimony scriptural knowledge, Aagam means nature of the substance- vastu ka swabhav ko agam kahate hai. (parmarth vachanika mokshmarg prakashak page 342). Principles as depicted in the scripture is known as aagam. Aagam paddhati means the tradition coming from time infinite in the past ( parmarth vachanika par gurudev shri ke pravachan page 39), Vastu no swabhav te aagam, karma paddhati te aagam, paryaay swabhaav is known as aagam. What has come down from tradition. The written form of the nature of the universal substances as propagated by Omniscient Lord. (Ref: Shrimad Rajchandra Vachanaamrut page 761) |
| Aagama pramaana | Supported by Lord Tirthankar’s divya-dhwani or Jinvani; Scriptural proof |
| Aagamaabhaasa | False/Pseudo-scriptures, fallacy due to scriptures: With inclination of attachment and aversion and with infatuation when one is making discourses is known as fallacy of scriptures. e.g. kids, please run to the river bank as there is heaps of sweets. He wants to get rid of kids. This sentence thus is with infatuation. There are hundreds of elephants sitting at the tip of a finger. (Ref: Pariksha mukh chapter 6) |
| Aagamana | Induction |
| Aagamana | Induction |
| Aagantuk | coming all of a sudden or uninvited; adventitious; strange. m. guest; traveller; chance visitor. |
| Aagiyo | glow-worm; kind of white juwar; a disease attacking it; a plant which causes a burning sensation if touched, ammanina vesicatoria; the king of ghosts or evil spirits, Vetal. |
| Aagnaa | order, command; permission, revelation, discipline |
| Aagnaa aaraadhan | adoration of command |
| Aagnaa ruche | Instructional predilection(predisposition in favor of something) |
| Aagnaankit | obedient |
| Aagrah | earnest desire, earnestness; importunity, pressure; strong determination; insistence; obstinacy |
| Aahaara | Meal; Food; Intake of food; Nourishment; Intake |
| Aahaara daana | Food donation |
| Aahaara hetu | Purpose of food |
| Aahaara mudraa | A monk with his thumb and four fingers of right hand for begging food is called food pose. |
| Aahaara sangnaa | Food instinct, animate feelings for food |
| Aahaara varganaa | Intake variform; Food variform; Body making, a kind of karmic molecule causing body formation |
| Aahaarak mishra kaay yog | vibration in the soul’s space points during completion of aahaar sharir |
| Aahaarak sharir angopaang | primary and secondary parts of aahaarak sharir |
| Aahaarak sharir bandh | bondage of aahaarak varganaa for formation of assimilative body |
| Aahaarak sharir naam karma prakrtuti | a type of physique making karmic nature causing formation of translocational body- assimilative body |
| Aahaaraka | Assimilating; Capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; Assimilative; Projectable body |
| Aahaaraka kaayayoga | Activity of translocational body |
| Aahaaraka labdhi | Extra-ordinary power of translocation |
| Aahaaraka samudghaata | Translocational body emanation/extrication |
| Aahaarana | Invocation; A prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service; Invitation, desire to invite the holy one. |
| Aahaarank varganaa | a kind of karmic molecule causing body formation |
| Aahaarya | brought it from out side, artificial, |
| Aahvaanan | invocation, invitation, desire to invite the holy one |
| Aakaankshaa | desire, hope; aspiration; [gr.] expectation, expected presence, of word necessary to complete a sense. |
| Aakaar | form, stature, shape, self and non self substance, their attributes and modes ( pravachansaar gatha 124) |
| Aakaasha dravya | Space substance |
| Aakaashgami | Walking in sky |
| Aakar granth | reference book (of information) |
| Aakhyaan | tale, story, (esp. mythological); legendary story. |
| Aakultaa | perplexity, mystified, confused, happiness associated with restlessness. |
| Aalamban | support, prop; shelter. |
| Aalingan | embrace, clasp |
| Aalochan | intuition, intuitional recognition, perceptual cognition, |
| Aalochanaa | Repent; Criticize, soul’s experience of separation from the fruition of karma in present state, self criticism, confession, the report of sin committed. |
| Aalochanaa praayaaschit | repentance for self criticism |
| Aalochanaa shuddi | modification by criticism |
| Aalochavu | to know and not to join in the fruition of karm a. – embrace, clasp |
| Aalochit | one who has confessed his faults |
| Aalok | prakaash, light, |
| Aamnaay | the Vedas; the Vedas inclusive of the Brahmanas, the Upanishdas and the Aranyakas; religious sect or doctrine; good manners, etiquette; tradition, usage. |
| Aanayan | bringing; sacred-thread ceremony |
| Aankichanya | Possessionlessness; Non-attachment |
| Aanth drasti | eight stages of personality growth. Eight stages of evolution |
| Aanupurvi naam karma | migratory form of body karma |
| Aanupurvi puva | Regular order |
| Aapadaa | calamity; danger; sorrow; difficulty |
| Aapt | – authentic, related; connected by consanguinity or affinity; reliable, trustworthy; authoritative; obtained, acquired. m. trustworthy, reliable, authoritative, person. Aapt kise kahate hai? Who is called the trustworthy soul? Jo pratyaksha gnaan se samast padartho ka gnaataa (sarvagna) hai aur param hitopadeshi hei, vah aapt hai. One who has knowledge of all the objects with his direct knowledge ( experienced knowledge) and one who gives discourses for helping others is known as trustworthy soul – aapt. Arihants are aapt. One who knows all the universal substances and then lets others know about the nature of these substances in right manners is “aapt”. (ref. Shrimad Rajchandra Vachanaamrut page 761) Aapt is the one who has obtained complete passionless state and also is all knower and giving discourses to others to further their spirituality is known as aapt. Vitraagi, sarvagn ane hitopadeshi ne aapt kahevaay chhe. He is without 18 faults like hunger thirst etc. ( Ratnakand Shraavakaachaar slok no 5) |
| Aapta | One who has attained spiritual authority; Authentic; The authentic authoritative source of true scriptures i.e. (Arahanta, Jina Kevlin, Teerthankara). |
| Aapta mimaanshaa | The creation of the scripture by Swami Samanthbhadra. It describes Tirthankar’s sarvagnataa and also syaadvaad principles are explained |
| Aaraa | One of the six divisions of time in one half of the time cycle. Runs from thousands to billions of years. We are currently in the 5th ara of the descending half of the time cycle, which started some 2500 years ago. |
| Aaraadhak | one who is worshipping, worshiper, aspirant |
| Aaraadhan | adoration, worship; propitiation |
| Aaraadhanaa | worshiping, worship; service, (1) Acts or activities specifically religious of achieving or accomplishing desired religious or spiritual goals; (2) Divine service; (3) Worship to lord; (3) Adoration to lord; (5) Strong admiration; (6) Kriya |
| Aaraadhya | one who gets worshipped. |
| Aaradhaka | Worshiper: Aspirant |
| Aarambh samaarambh | to inflict violence to animal is aarambh and to acquire the material to inflict violence is known as samaarambh |
| Aarambha | Commencement; Activities of cutting act; Sinful activities and Occupation; Commence or Commencement; Commission, beginning, start, preparation; undertaking, to inflict violence to animal, to perform act of violence, wherever is aarambh, there is parigrah. Aarambh and parigrah are ekaarth vaachi. |
| Aaratee | Waving lamps; Ennui i.e. The feeling of being bored by something tedious; Worship of idol with waving lamp; The Lamp waving ceremony before idol |
| Aarjava | Straightforwardness unavoidably in the performance of various duties and rituals |
| Aarop | imputation, accusation; charge of guilt |
| Aaropan | attributing the properties of one thing to another; accusation, charge; founding, establishing; planting. |
| Aaropavu | attribute the properties of one thing to another; ascribe; put a false charge on, accuse; string, thread, beads etc.; insert; plant, implant; apply, devote. |
| Aaropi | the accused |
| Aaropit | aupaadhik rupe, altered inclination due to alien belonging |
| Aarta | Sorrowful |
| Aarta dhyaana | The lowest form of meditation as identified by the Jains. Its object is two-fold: a desire to get rid of an undesired thing, and a desire to get back a dear and coveted thing. This characterizes the thinking of all human beings. |
| Aarthic | prayojan, motive |
| Aartra | pain, trouble |
| Aartra dhyaan | painful meditation, painful concentration, mournful concentration |
| Aarya | Noble people; Civilized people; A human race. |
| Aarya bhumi | place where noble persons live. |
| Aarya desa | Arya land or basically India |
| Aarya-staya | Noble truth |
| Aarya-vachana | Nobleman’s teaching; Novel teaching |
| Aaryaa | respectable woman, woman of a noble family |
| Aaryaahaa | tirthankar, gandhar, acharya, upaadhyaay, muni, pancham gun sthan varti shraavak, samkiti jiv |
| Aaryikaa | female ascetic |
| Aasaadana | Disregard, denial, disregard for knowledge |
| Aasakti | attachment, deep love |
| Aasana | posture, Asana literally means ‘seat’ but in broader sense they refer to various body postures. Patanjali dwells only on seating postures in Yog Sutra. |
| Aasana-pana-khadim-swadim | Four food items as follows: Bread, rice that constitute the main meal All drinks, Fruits, Betel, chewing spices taken after meal, jaggery, honey, etc. |
| Aashankaa | doubt, suspicion; apprehension, the inclination that the thing which is been told is not understood by me. |
| Aashcharya | surprise, wonder; wonderful incident, miracle, marvelous |
| Aashcharyakaarak | surprising, wonderful |
| Aashrama | Life stage (total four); Hermitage |
| Aashrava | (1) Influx; (2) Accumulation; (3) Passional dispositions; (4) Inflow of karma; (5) See Navatattva; (6) nflux of karmic matter towards a soul to stick with it; (7) Influx of the karmic matter into the soul passionnel disposition (8) Karmic influx ne of the nine tattvas |
| Aashrava anupreksaa | Influxal reflection |
| Aashrava bhaava | Passionate dispositions |
| Aashrava-nirodha | Cessation of in-flux |
| Aashravadvara | Channels for in-flux; Influx doors |
| Aashraya | Refuge; Shelter; Support; Basis; Substratum; Repository; Support; |
| Aasrav | inflow |
| Aasravan | coming, arrival |
| Aasray | shelter, refuge, support, temaa tenaathi thaay chhe ane par thi nathi thaatu Aashray rup- supporter |
| Aasrit | dependent |
| Aasthaa | Faith; Trust; Belief, leaning |
| Aastikya | faith in Omniscient lord, holy scriptures and enlightened true teachers |
| Aasvaad | tasting; enjoying, eating |
| Aataap | inauspiciusness , paap |
| Aatam-raksaa | Self protection, self restraint from karmic bondage |
| Aatap | warming light |
| Aatm aadhinataa | self dependency |
| Aatm aashrit | to protect the soul by perpetual judgements |
| Aatm bhaava | dispositions of the self, aatma tatva |
| Aatm bhut | integral, identical, integral virtue, self natured, indigenous quality |
| Aatm brahm | omniscient lord, all knower soul |
| Aatm dravya | soul substance |
| Aatm gnaani | self enlightened |
| Aatm hanan | self deterioration |
| Aatm hatyaa | suicide |
| Aatm kalyaan | happiness for soul, prosperity of soul, welfare of soul, well beings of soul |
| Aatm linataa | self absorbedness |
| Aatm maya | nij swarup, own natural self |
| Aatm nishth | concerned with self subjective, engrossed in the self, experiencing the true nature of the self. |
| Aatm prabhaavnaa | influence of the pure soul |
| Aatm pradesh | space points of soul |