WORD |
MEANING |
Kaivalya: |
Pure knowledge |
Kala: |
Time |
Time stages within the progressive and regressive half-cycles; time as a dravya |
Kala (Drvyadigata): |
Periodically |
Kala (Kaladigata): |
Time |
Kala (Kalakarakadigata): |
Time |
Kalanu: |
Time-points |
Kalatyayapadista: |
Mistimed (contradicted) |
Kalikasruta: |
A Jain scripture |
Kalpatita: |
Born in the highest heavenly abodes |
Kalpopapanna: |
Born in the kalpa heavens |
Kalyanaka: |
Auspicious moments |
Kanyadana: |
Ceremony of giving away the bride |
Kapota-lesya: |
Gray karmic strain |
Karaka: |
Case |
Karana: |
Cause |
Karana (Hetu): |
Cause |
Karanantarasakalya: |
Co-operation of all other causes |
Karananupalabdhi: |
Non-availability of the cause |
Karanatva: |
As the cause |
Karanollekha: |
Mention of instrument |
Karma: |
Action |
Karma-bhumi: |
Realm of action |
Karma-cetana: |
Consciousness of oneself as the doer of actions |
Karma-phala-cetana: |
Consciousness of oneself as the enjoyer of the karmic fruits |
Karma-prakrti: |
The particular form into which karmic matter is differentiated |
Karman: |
Action |
Karmana: |
karmic. |
Karmana-sarira: |
The transmigrating body of karmic matter |
Karmana-Vargana: |
Karmic-molecule |
Karsapana: |
Coin |
Karta: |
Agent |
Karunya: |
Pity, Compassion for the afflicted. |
Karya: |
Effect |
Karya (Hetu): |
Effect |
Karyanupalabdhi: |
Non-availability of the effect |
Kasaya: |
Passions |
Katha: |
Debate |
Narrative literature |
Talk |
Kathora: |
Hard |
Katuka: |
Bitter. |
Kavala-ahara: |
Food in morsels; ordinary human food |
Kaya: |
Movement by body. |
Kaya klesha: |
Mortification of the body, so long as the mind is not disturbed–external austerity. |
Kaya-klesa: |
Mortifications of the body |
Kayiki-kriya: |
a wicked man’s readiness to hurt others. |
Kayotsarga: |
Abandonment of the body, a standing or sitting posture of meditation |
Kesa-loca: |
The practice of pulling out one’s hair in five handfuls |
Kevala (Jnana): |
Perfect knowledge |
Kevala-darshanavarana: |
Perfect-conation-obscuring. |
Kevala-jnanavarana: |
Perfect-knowledge-obscuring. |
Kevaladarsana: |
Perception associated with kevalajnana |
Kevalajnana: |
Knowledge isolated from karmic obstruction; infinite knowledge; omniscience; knowledge involving awareness of every existent in all its qualities and modes |
Kevalin: |
One who has attained kevalajnana; a synonym for arhat |
Kilita samhanana: |
Riveted bones. |
Klishyamaneshu: |
The afflicted. |
Komala: |
Soft |
Krama: |
Order |
Sequential order |
Kramabhavi: |
Occurring successively |
Kramayaugapadya: |
Simultaneity or order |
Krishna: |
Black. |
Kriya (Kalpana): |
Activity |
Kriya naya: |
Point of view of action |
Kriyanayabhasa: |
False point of view of action |
Kriyas: |
Actions; a Jaina term for sacred rites |
Kriyasabda: |
Root word |
Kriyavadi: |
belief in time, soul, etc., as causing everything in the world. |
All the substances perform their functions and become causes of different effects. |
Krodha: |
Anger |
Krodha-pratyakhyana: |
Giving up anger. |
Krsi: |
Farming |
Krsna-lesya: |
Black karmic stain |
Ksama: |
Forgiveness |
Ksamasramana: |
An ascetic who suffers with equanimity; title used in addressing a monk during the ritual fo confession |
Ksanika: |
Momentary |
Ksanti: |
Forbearance |
Ksapana: |
Destruction |
Ksatriya: |
Member of a warrior caste |
Ksaya: |
Destruction |
Ksayika-samyak-darsana: |
True insight achieved by the destruction of darsana-mohaniya karmas |
Ksayopasama: |
Cessation and subsidence of karmic veil |
Ksayopasama-labdhi: |
Attainment of purity by the destruction-cumsuppression of certain karmas |
Ksayopasamika-samyaktva: |
True insight achievedby the destruction cum-suppression of darsana-mohaniya karmas; identical to vedakasamyaktva |
Ksetra: |
Territory |
Kshanti: |
Forgiveness |
Kshaya: |
Destruction |
Ksina-moha: |
Permanent dissociation from all caritra-mohaniya karmas and from the passions which they produce, the twelfth gunasthana |
Ksipra (Matijnana): |
Quick |
Ksullaka: |
Minor; junior monk; a Jaina layman on the eleventh pratima; one who wears three pieces of clothing |
Kubjaka: |
Hunchback. |
Kula: |
Family |
Kumara-sramana: |
A life-long celibate |
Kundalini-cakra: |
Mystical centers of psychic energy |
Kutastha-nitya: |
Eternal and unchangeable |