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| Word | Meaning |
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| Daksina-agni | One of the sacred fires in the Hindu srauta ritual |
| Dana | Charity |
| Charity; alms-giving | |
| Dana Antaraya | Charity-Obstructive. |
| Dana-antaraya | A type of karma that hinders the practice of charity |
| Dandin | One who carries a staff |
| Darsana | Indeterminate intuition, faith Intuition; a system of philosophy; insight; perception |
| Darsana-mohaniya | Insight-deluding karmas |
| Darsana-pratima | The first step on the ladder of pratima |
| Darsanavaraniya | Perception-obscuring karmas |
| Darsantika | Thesis |
| Darshana | Faith. |
| Darshana mohaniya | right-belief-deluding karmic matter |
| Darshana-kriya | infatuated desire to see a pleasing form. |
| Darshana-mohaniya | Right-belief-deluding. |
| Darshana-vishuddhi | purity of right-belief |
| Darshanavarana | Conation-obscuring |
| Dasa-dharma | Ten forms of righteousness |
| Dashaya | Astringent, (Saline). |
| Desa-virata | The fifth gunasthana where desa-virati is attained |
| Desa-virati | The set of restraints prescribed for a Jaina layman |
| Desana-labdhi | Obtaining instruction in the Jaina teachings |
| Desavakasika | Limiting the area of one’s movement |
| Desha-Katha | Scandal |
| Deshavrata | Taking a vow to limit worldly activity to fixed points for a short period of time, for example,for one’s weely or daily worldly activity. |
| Deva | Celestial. |
| Heavenly beings; untimate divinity |
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| The Celestial beings | |
| Deva Anupurvi | Celestial–migratory form. |
| Deva-Ayu | Celestial-age-karma |
| Deva-brahmana | Divine brahman, i.e., a Jaina brahman |
| Deva-dusya | Divine cloth; a finely woven piece of cloth |
| Deva-mudhata | Delusion pertaining to gods |
| Deva-nikayas | The four orders of gods |
| Devagama | The arrival of gods at a holy gathering |
| Devajiva | Soul of the god |
| Devanupurvi | The power of retaining the last form whatever it was, in going to the celestial condition of existence. |
| Devapuja | Worship of the Tirthankaras |
| Devayu | Celestial age. |
| Dharana | Retention |
| Dharma | Attribute |
| Holy law; elements in Buddhist doctrine; righteousness, ten forms |
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| Observances | |
| Principle of Motion | |
| The true Religion | |
| Dharma svakhya tattvanupreksha | Nature of Right-Path as said by the conquerors. The true nature of Truth, i.e., the three fold path to real Liberation. |
| Dharma-dravya | The principle of motion |
| Dharma-katha | Religious tale |
| Dharma-labha | Increase in righteousness |
| Dharma-svakhyatatva | The absolutely true teachings of the Jinas |
| Dharma-tirtha | Holy path |
| Dharmadhyana | Virtuous concentration |
| Dharmin | Subject |
| Dhrauvya | Continuance |
| Dhruva (Matijnana) | Constant |
| Dhruva Shunya-Vargana | Fixed-indifferent-molecule |
| Dhruva Vargana | Fixed-molecule |
| Dhupa | Incense |
| Dhvani | The word |
| Dhyana | Concentration–internal austerity. Meditation |
| Digambara | Sky-clad; name of the Jaina sect whose mendicants practice ascetic nudity |
| Digha-tapassi | One who engages in extended penances |
| Digvrata | Restriction on the distances a person may travel |
| Taking a life-long vow to limit his wordly activity to fixed points in all the 10 directions; East, West, North, South, South-east, East-north, North-west, West-south, and Up and Down. |
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| Diksa | Initiation |
| Dipa | Lamp |
| Divyadhvani | Miraculous sound |
| Dosa | Imperfection |
| Dravya | Substance |
| Substance; external | |
| Dravya (Niksepa) | Substance |
| Dravya-carya | Nominal acarya |
| Dravya-mana | Mind-qua-substance |
| The physical basis of the mind | |
| Dravya-puja | Form of worship employing external objects |
| Dravya-samyaktva | The external aspect of true insight |
| Dravyadeva | Substantial symbol of god |
| Dravyajiva | Substantial soul |
| Dravyajivatva | Substantial soul |
| Dravyakalpana | Distinction of substance |
| Dravyakriya | Pseudo-action |
| Dravyanikaramba | Substance transformed into sense-data |
| Dravyartha | Through the substance |
| Dravyarthika | Of the substance |
| Dravyarthikabhasa | False point of view of substance |
| Dravyarthikanaya | Point of the substance |
| Dravyastikanaya | Material point of view |
| Dravyatmaka | Substantial |
| Dravyatva | capacity by which it is always changing in modifications. |
| Change-ability | |
| Substantial soul | |
| Dravyendra | Sense qua substance |
| Drsta | Perception |
| Drstanta | Example |
| Drstanta-dosa | Fallacy of example |
| Duh-pramrishta | Putting down a thing petulantly or peevishly. |
| Duhshruti | Reading or hearing bad books. |
| Duhsvara | Harsh-voiced, noisy. |
| Dukha | Pain |
| Durbhaga | unprepossessing; even though beautiful. |
| Durbhiksa | Famine |
| Durgamdha | Evil-smelling; mal-odorous. |
| Dusama | Unhappy |
| Dusama-dusama | Extremely unhappy |
| Dvesa | Hatred; aversion |
| Dvesha | Hatred in the pleasing and displeasing wordly objects of the five senses. |
| Dvija | Twice-born |
| Dvindriya | Two-sensed. |
| Dvipa | Island |
| Dvipa-samudra | Island-continent |