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| WORD | MEANING |
|---|---|
| Jaati | Birth; Caste; Genus; Race; Class; Family from maternal side |
| Jaatikarma | Caste/Class/Genus determining karma. |
| Jaatimada | Racial pride/puff |
| Jaatimantra | Litany at birth; Incantation at birth |
| Jaatismrati | Memory of past life; Past life recollection |
| Jada | Nonsentient; Fool |
| Jadatva | Non sentience, non sentient |
| Jafara | Wide awake |
| Jaga | Universe; Moving; Temporal world |
| Jagara | Universe; Moving; Temporal world |
| Jagat pratara | Area of universe, 49 Rajjus |
| Jagat sremo | Length of universe, 7 Rajju units |
| Jagataghana | Volume of universe, 343 Rajjus |
| Jaghanya guna | Minimum degree, minimum degree of attribute, matter having one or minimal properties |
| Jaghanyetara | Non-minimum |
| Jai | Victory or conquest |
| Jain | Follower of Jainism |
| Jain saasana | Jain teaching; Jain order |
| Jaina | Followers of a Jina, a synonym for Nigantha; One who has samyak-darsana. |
| Jaina-braahmana | Laypeople in charge of priestly functions within certain Jaina communities |
| Jainaabhaasa | False Jainas; Pseudo-Jaina, fallacy in knowledge about jainism, Here there is fault in terms of belief and not in conduct. |
| Jainadarsana | Jain sign |
| Jainism | Religion of the Jains |
| Jala | Water |
| Jalaachaara | Five sensed aquatic beings |
| Jalagalana | Water filtration |
| Jalakaaya | Water body |
| Jalakaayika | Water-bodied |
| Jalpa vitanda | Wrangling and cavil |
| Jambu | Name of a dweep or island |
| Jambu dweep | The continent of the rose-apple tree.’ The realm in the universe that is inhabited by humans. This region is transverse by six mountains which divide the region into seven regions. The most important regions are India in the south, Airavat in the north, and Mahavideha in the middle. It is believed that in these three regions, humans may find rewards for religious pursuits and that deliverance may be possible. |
| Janaka | Congniser; Progenitor |
| Jangama | Mobile |
| Janma | (1) Birth; (2) Part of trio Janma(birth) – Jara (old age) and Mrutyu(death) |
| Janma kalyaana | Teerthankar’s holy birth is one of the five most auspicious events in Jainism |
| Janma siddha | Salvated due to birth |
| Janma-Jara-Marana | Birth-Old age-Death |
| Janpada satya | Regional truth |
| Jantu | Living being; Repeatedly born |
| Janya | Congnitum; Produced |
| Jaraa | Old age (2) Part of trio Janma(birth) – Jara (old age) and Mrutyu(death), slough of snake, a little. |
| Jarayuka | Umbillical birth; Placental birth |
| Jati smaran gyaana | Knowledge from previous life |
| Jaya Jinendra | Victory to lord Jina, A social mark of greeting. |
| Jayamaala | Victory garland; Laudatory hymn; Hymnal garland; trumphal garland |
| Jhaankhi |
(1)Glimpse; (2) peeping, peep; (3) looking at with admiration. (4) Jinvani –preachings of Tirthankara, holy scriptures |
| Jhanjhaavata | Stormy wind |
| Jhankhanaa | Constant longing; Aardent desire; Frequent remembrance; worry |
| Jignaasa | Curiosity; Omniscient |
| Jina | (1) Conqueror of the Self; (2) Spiritual victor; (3) One who has conquered the feelings of attachment and aversion and all the four types of passions. He is free from 18 types of defects; (4) ‘Conqueror.’ He who has conquered love and hate, pleasure and pain, attachment and aversion, and has thereby freed his’ soul from the karmas obscuring knowledge, perception, truth, and ability, is a Jina. The Jains refer to the Jina as God (5) Omniscient, one who has conquered the physical senses and mind, one with right faith, samyag drasti jiv, Conquerer of passions and senses, omniscient lord, a synonym for Tirthankara, one who has conquered the physical senses and mind, one with right faith, samyag drasti jiv, Conquerer of passions and senses, omniscient lord. |
| Jina aagama | Jaina scripture |
| Jina bhaavanaa | Jaina temple |
| Jina bimba | Image of a Jina; Jina Idol |
| Jina dharma | The spiritual religion or discourses preached by “Jina” |
| Jina mandira | Temple where idol of Jina is installed |
| Jina pratima | Idol of Jina |
| Jina sasana | The influence of Lord Jina or last Tirhtankara whose teaching we know and practice. |
| Jina vaani | Omniscient’s preaching |
| Jina vachan | A supernatural wordless speech of Jina called “Divya-dhwani” |
| Jinaagama | Omniscient’s preaching i.e Jinavani in written form by his disciples |
| Jinaalaya | Temple of Jina, the conqueror of passions |
| Jinakalpa | Jina-like; Jina-modelled conduct |
| Jinakalpi | Jina-modelled monk |
| Jinamudra | Jina posture |
| Jinendra | (1) Teerthankar Ganadharas etc. Conquerer of indriya; (2) One who has destroyed four ghatiya karmas and has demonstrated infinite foursome is Jinedra |
| Jineshwara | Teerthankar Ganadhar etc.Supreme jain victor |
| Jita | Controlled; Conquered. |
| Jitakalpa | Traditional conduct |
| Jitendriya | (1) Sense controlled; (2) Conqueror of objects of five senses |
| Jiva | Living, Animate, Living being, Soul, Self, Spriit LIfe. |
| Jiva adhikarana | Sentient substrata |
| Jiva ajiva adhikara | Chapter on living and non living |
| Jiva astikaaya | Living entity; Animate entensive substance |
| Jiva dayaa | Compassion or mercy toward living beings |
| Jiva dravya | Soul substance |
| Jiva samaasa | Classification of living beings; Taxonomy; Fourteen varieties of condition in which soul is found. e.g. Sthävara trasa mukta etc. |
| Jiva sthaana | Classification of organic being |
| Jiva vipaaki | Soul-maturing karma. |
| Jivaghana | Cluster of souls. |
| Jivana-mukta | The state of emancipation in life such as for Tirthankara |
| Jivaraasi | Totality of living beings. |
| Jivasthaana | State of soul, State/Stations of the living, spiritual stages. |
| Jivatva | Livingness, consciousness,Soul |
| Jivita-saansa | Desire of life |
| Jjallari | Cymbal; Going; Dough |
| Jnaana (Gnaana) |
Knowledge The Jainas have conceived five kinds of knowledge as follows: Mati or ordinary cognition by the sense organs and the mind; Sruta or knowledge derived with the help of signs, symbols, or words (expressions); Avadhi or direct knowledge of corporeal things without the help of the sense organs and the mind, but within some limit of space and time, to know, understand, learn, acknowledge, to command or order Manahparyaya or direct knowledge of the thought of others without the help of the sense organs and the mind, but within some limit of space and time; Kevala or knowledge which completely reveals, without any limitation of space and time, the truth about all things in the universe, corporeal as well as non-corporeal, with all their attributes and modifications, past, present, and future, understanding, knowledge, consciousness, knowledge conductive to liberation, Congnition; Realization; Experience |
| Jnaana ninhava (Gnaana ninhava) | Concealment of knowledge |
| Jnaana sanjna (Gnaana sangna) | Knowledge instinct |
| Jnaanachetnaa (Gnaanachetnaa) | Cognitional consciousness |
| Jnaanadana (Gnaanadana) | Transmission/donation of knowledge |
| Jnaanavaraniya karma | Knowledge-obscuring karma |
| Jnaanedriya (Gnaanedriya) | Congnitive sense; Sankhya categories of senses |
| Jnaani (Gnaani) | Knower, a learned person, a person with right knowledge. |
| Jnaanopayoga (Gnaanopayoga) | Cognitive consciousness; Determine cognition |
| Jnaanotpattikrama | Process of obtaining knowledge |
| Jnaapti (Gnaapti) | Knowledge |
| Jnaata /Jnayaka (Gnaata/Gnayaka) | Knower |
| Jnaata-bhaava (Gnaata-bhaava) | Intuitional state; Intention |
| Jneya (Gneya) | Object of knowledge; Knowledgeable, recognizable object |
| Jugupsa mohaniya karma | Aversion deluding karma |
| Jugupsaa | Aversion or intense dislike, censure, reproach; strong dislike, disgust. |
| Juhara | Jaina term for social greetings |
| Jyotisa vidyaa | Astronomy |
| Jyotish chakra | Area of space in which zodiac planets, stars, etc. are located |
| Gnaanaaraadhanaa | contemplation or right knowledge |
| Ja | coming after a word in a sentence, shows its importance, uniqueness, certainty, surety etc. and corresponds to ‘very’, ‘self’, ‘indeed’, ‘surely’, etc. 1: In scripture, it’s use denotes the association with opposite to the true nature of a substance. So it is to be considered as negative element. Vastu swabhaav thi viparit nirupan kare chhe tethi teno ahi nishedh karyo chhe. Over here word “ja” denotes one sided wrong belief – mithyaa ekaant. 2: But when one is considering true nature of a substance in relative pluralism- anekaantaatmak vastu swabhaav thi nirupan kare chhe – at that time with certain perspective when one is showing the fact then there is use of word “ja” – certainty, then it is not considered as negative element. Over here word “ja” denotes one sided right belief – samyak ekaant. When one says that ‘certainly’ one gets liberation due to its true nature of the self atmaa naa nischay swabhaav thi ‘ja’ moksha thaay chhe – then this ‘ja’ is one sided right belief – samyak ekaant. |
| Jaasud | kind of a red rose. |
| Jaati smaran gnaan | knowledge from previous life |
| Jad | inanimate; without feeling, intelligence or energy; dull, stupid; inert, motionless; material (as opposed to spiritual). |
| Jaga panth | path to the temporal world |
| Jagat | temporal world |
| Jagattraataa | protector of universe. |
| Jaghanya | mimimal, minimum |
| Jaghanya ajaghanya | lowest and other than lowest |
| Jaghanya anantanant | a measure of infinite numbers. |
| Jaghanya antaratma | beings with right faith but not observing vows |
| Jaghanya asankhyat | a transcendental number, alaukik sankhya |
| Jaghanya avgahana | lowest occupancy |
| Jaghanya ayu | the lowest life period. |
| Jaghanya bhaav | low sentiments. |
| Jaghanya dharmadhyan | religious observations of lower kind |
| Jaghanya gnan | minimal knowledge |
| Jaghanya kashayansh | lowest part of passions |
| Jaghanya krusti | lowest destruction of passions |
| Jaghanya krusti antar | minimal tract interval. |
| Jaghanya labdhi | minimal attainment of spiritual virtues |
| Jaghanya nirvruttta paryapta | lowest period of life of living being. |
| Jaghanya paritananta | minimal preliminary innumerable, a mathematical term of infinite measure. |
| Jaghanya paritasankhyat | a mathematical measure of infinite measure |
| Jaghanya parmanu | atom with the property of lowest degree. |
| Jaghanya spardhak | group of lowest vargana |
| Jaghanya sthiti bandh | Lowest karmic binding state. |
| Jaghanya varga | minimal group of class of particles etc. |
| Jaghanya vargana | lowest aggregate of karmic molecules. |
| Jaghanya yogsthan | lowest grade of vibratory activity of soul |
| Jaghanya yukta nanta | minimal secondary infinite, a mathematical term regarding numbers. |
| Jaghanya yukta sankhyat | a mathematical term regarding numbers. |
| Jagruti | alertness |
| Jain shashan | jain doctrines |
| Jaina-brachman: | Laypeople in charge of priestly functions within certain Jaina communities |
| Jaina-sasana: | Teaching of the Jainas |
| Jaina: | Follower of Jina, a synonym for Nigantha; one who has samyak-darsana |
| Jainabhasa: | False Jainas |
| Jala: | Water |
| Jalp | saying, thing said; prattle, prattling; argument put forward to defeat the adversary and not for determining truth, wrangling. |
| Janaavu | be known or found; appear, seem. |
| Janma-kalyana: | Birth; one of the five auspicious events in the career of a Tirthankara |
| Janma: | Birth |
| Jap | mutter or repeat a sacred formula or prayer, repeating the same words and then getting engrossed in its meaning is jap. |
| Japaa kusum | kind of a red rose. |
| Jara: | Old age |
| Jarisabda: | Root word |
| Jaththo | group, multitude, collection, aggregate, assemblage. |
| Jati (Kalpana): | Sophism |
| Jati-karma: | The variety of nama-karma that determines one’s specific destiny |
| Jati-mantra: | A litany used in celebrating the birth of a child |
| Jati: | Birth, caste; species within a gati Genus of beings, Genus. |
| Jay | victory, triumph. |
| Jay jay | expression of salutation or greeting. |
| Jayamala: | Garland of victory; a hymn in praise ofthe Jinas |
| Jayghoshanaa | shouts of acclamation on attaining victory; declaration of victory. |
| Jayjaykaar | acclamation on attainment of or wishing victory. |
| Je jenu hoy te tenu thaay | A particular thing is having a certain thing then that certain thing belongs to that particular thing. All knower eternal soul substance has knowledge mode. A knowledge mode therefore belongs to all knower soul substance. This is conventional point of view as mode and all knower soul substance are considered separately. (ref: samaysaar stanza 356-365) |
| Je jenu hoy te to te j chhe | a particular thing belongs to a certain thing then that particular thing is that certain thing. All knower soul substance has knowledge mode, therefore knowledge mode itself is all knower soul substance. This is absolute point of view as knowing and knower are considered as one only. (ref: samaysaar stanza 56-365. |
| Jigisu katha: | A debate which is held for victory |
| Jignaashaa | keen desire to know, will to know or knowledge, desire to know; curiosity. |
| Jignaashu | desirous of knowing; curious. |
| Jijnasa: | Curiosity |
| Jin bhaav | aim at the common soul substance and as a result to produce the right faith mode. |
| Jin shaasan | Jainism |
| Jin swarup | to experience the self as supreme soul. |
| Jina-agama: | Jaina scripture |
| Jina-bhavana: | Jaina temple |
| Jina-bimba: | Image of Jina |
| Jina-nama: | Name of Jina |
| Jinakalpin: | A monk whose conduct is modeled upon that of Mahavira |
| Jinasthapana: | Image of Jina |
| Jinvaani | preachings of Tirthankara, holy scriptures |
| Jinvar | Disciple of Omniscient lord, gandhar. |
| Jinvar vrushabh | Omniscient lord, Tirthankar. |
| Jit moha | conquerer of delusion state |
| Jiv dravya | soul as a whole which includes substance attributes and modes, pramaan no vishay |
| Jiv Samaas | one ends up knowing different types of living beings is known as Jiv Samaas. They are of 14 types as follow: Five sense beings are of two types: sentient and non sentient. One sense beings are of two types: subtle and gross – suksham and baadar. Two sense, three sense and four sense beings- one each. Above seven types are of two different things- incompletely developed and completely developed- aparyaapt and paryaapt. 7*2 =14 |
| Jiv sthaan | living beings are classified according to the senses- 1-5 is known as jiv sthaan. |
| Jiv tatva | soul as eternal substance only and attributes and modes are secondary in nature, drasti no vishay |
| Jiva Kanda: | Fifth of the Sacred Books of the Jainas |
| Jiva: | living, Soul; sentient |
| Jivaatmaa | sentience |
| Jivamaya | identical with the soul substance, jiv sathe tadrup. |
| Jivan | life, water |
| Jivopajivi | dependent on the soul substance only. knowledge attribute depends on soul only. |
| Jna | who knows, knowing. |
| Jna | who knows, knowing. |
| Jnaan baal | unknown to reality |
| Jnaan chakshu | omniscience |
| Jnaan chetnaa | cognitive consciousness, Experiencing of the self, swarup vedan, (panchastikaay gatha 16) |
| Jnaan daan | act of giving ir imparting knowledge |
| Jnaan gamya | attainable with knowledge |
| Jnaan ghan | pure knowledge |
| Jnaan guh | concealing the understanding |
| Jnaan guhya | secret from the worldly knowledge |
| Jnaan kaand | portion of vedas which relates to the knowledge of the soul. |
| Jnaan kalyaanak | a great celebration for omniscience attained by lord Arihant |
| Jnaan ketu | having sign of knowledge |
| Jnaan kriyaa | an activity of gaining knowledge |
| Jnaan maarganaa | a type of knowledgeable investigation about beings |
| Jnaan mad | pride or puff of knowledge |
| Jnaan maya | full knowledge, never separating from knowledge |
| Jnaan mimaansaa | a part of vedic philosophy |
| Jnaan mudh | a titile of the saint devoid of right conduct |
| Jnaan naya | view point of acquiring religious knowledge |
| Jnaan pandit | one who is involved in right knowledge |
| Jnaan paryaay | instinctive true knowledge |
| Jnaan pravaad | lecture on knowledge, a part of scriptural knowledge |
| Jnaan samay | right time of gaining right knowledge |
| Jnaan sanskaar | paying reverence to the scriptures |
| Jnaan shalya | dishonoring right knowledge |
| Jnaan shuddhi | acquiring real knowledge, of the universe |
| Jnaan vat | knowing , wise, learned |
| Jnaan vijnaan | sacred and miscellaneous knowledge, I (brahma) am in all things, all things are in me ( brahma) |
| Jnaan vinay | internal penance, paying reverence to the right knowledge |
| Jnaan vruddh | advanced in knowledge, one having abundant right knowledge, |
| Jnaan yog | knowledge of reality or ultimate essence as the means of salvation (opposed to bhakti yoga) |
| Jnaanaachaar | right practice of right knowledge |
| Jnaanaakaar | power of the soul, super consciousness, jnaan bhandaar, mine of knowledge |
| Jnaanaatishay | ten excellences of the omniscience of lord Arihant |
| Jnaanaavaran | obscuring karma for right knowledge |
| Jnaanendriya | organ of perception |
| Jnaanin | wise, astrologer |
| Jnaanodhyotan | enlightenment of the real knowledge, having right knowledge for a thing, vastoo kaa yathaarth Jnaan honaa |
| Jnaanopakaran | sources of real knowledge |
| Jnaapak | indicating, suggesting |
| Jnaapan | making known, suggesting |
| Jnaapya | to be made known |
| Jnaapyataa | fit to be made known |
| Jnaapyatva | fit to be made known |
| Jnaat | known, understood |
| Jnaat shesh | that remains yet to be known |
| Jnaatavya | to be known |
| Jnaatey | thing to be done by relative, relationship. |
| Jnaati | relative, like, duty of a kinsman |
| Jnaati | relative, like, duty of a kinsman |
| Jnaati chel | degraded kinsman |
| Jnaati chel | degraded kinsman |
| Jnaati gaurav | honor of the kinsmen |
| Jnaati gaurav | honor of the kinsmen |
| Jnaati ghaatin | murderer of the relative |
| Jnaati ghaatin | murderer of the relative |
| Jnaati jan | relatives |
| Jnaati jan | relatives |
| Jnaatra | intellect |
| Jnaatra | intellect |
| Jnaatru | one who knows, surety |
| Jnaatru | one who knows, surety |
| Jnaayak | a learned person, knower of right knowledge |
| Jnaayak | a learned person, knower of right knowledge |
| Jnaayak sharir | body of a leaned person who knows the real nature of karma |
| Jnaayak sharir | body of a leaned person who knows the real nature of karma |
| Jnana-cetana: | Consciousness characterized as knowing itself |
| Jnana: | Knowledge |
| Jnananaya: | Point of view of knowledge |
| Jnananayabhasa: | False point of view of knowledge |
| Jnanavarana: | Knowledge-obscuring |
| Jnanavaraniya: | Knowledge-obscuring |
| Jnapit | known, instructed |
| Jnapti | knowledge, understanding |
| Jnapti kriyaa | activity of knowing |
| Jnapti parivartan | change in the acquainted knowledge |
| Jney jnaayak sambandh | relation between object and the knower |
| Jney tatva | knowledgeable substances |
| Jneyaakaar | characteristics knowledge of matter, upyog kaa ek bhed, padaarthaakaar jnaan kaa honaa. |
| Jneyaakaar parinaman | involvement in to the knowledge of the soul |
| Jneyaarth | recognizable matter |
| Jneyopajivi | depending on object of knowledge. grey upar dependent chhe te. |
| Jodavu | join, unite; sew together; attach, stick; assemble parts together to make one whole; put to work, yoke to vehicle; yoke bullock or horse to cart; make good loss or deficiency; compose (poem); fabricate, invent, (story); make (friendship with); add sth. to; annex, append; collect (money, merit, etc.); put together, join. |
| Jugupsa: | Disgust, Disgust; aversion. Hiding one’s own, and publishing other people’s shortcomings. |
| Jyoti | light; luster, lamp-flame; strap of yoke; heavenly body (sun, moon, star, etc.)., radiance |
| Jyotish dev | stellar celestial living beings, planetary dev, How many types of stellar celestial beings are there (Jyotistha Dev)? There are five as follow: Suns – Surya. Moons – Chandra. Planets – Graha. Constellations – Nakshatra. Scattered stars – Tara. |
| Jyotiska deva | Stellar deities; Astral deities/celestials |
| Jyotiska: | The steller gods |