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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. |