K
K
| 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. |
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| 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 |