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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