| WORD | MEANING |
| Abadhita | With no contradiction of the probandum |
| Abadhitavisayatva | Absence of contradiction of the probandum |
| Abhavya | One who is incapable of attaining moksa |
| 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, or group of attributes, called Soul. Immateriality |
| 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 or wrong-belief-breeding or Right-belief preventing-passions. |
| 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. |
| Anutseka | not being proud of one's own achievement or attainments. |
| Anuvichi-bhashana | Speaking in accordance with scriptural injunctions. |
| Anuvratas | Minor vows pertaining only to laypeople |
| Anuyoga | Exposition; a group of postcanonical texts |
| Anvaya | Concomitance in agreement |
| Anvayadharma | Quality |
| Anyatarasiddha | Unproved for either of the two |
| Anyathanupapatti | Logical impossibility in the absence of the other |
| Anyatva anupreksha | Sepatateness. Otherness. The world, my relations and friends, my body, and mind, they are all distinct and separate from my real self. |
| Apadhyana | Thinking ill of others. |
| Apara (Samgrahanaya) | Non-ultimate (generic) |
| Aparamarthika | Empirical |
| Aparigraha | Nonpossession |
| Aparinamin | Unchanging |
| Aparyapti | Undevelopable; Incapable of developing the body fully. |
| Aparyavasita (Srutajnana) | Having no end |
| Apavartana | Energy that hastens the time and decreases the intensity of karmic fruition |
| Apaya | Perceptual judgment |
| Apayavicaya | Contemplation on the means by which beings can be saved |
| Apo-kayika | Water-bodies |
| Apradhanacarya | Nominal acarya |
| Apramanatva | Invalidity |
| Apramatta-virata | Restraint not vitiated by carelessness, the seventh gunasthana |
| Apramatva | Non-organ of knowledge |
| Aprapyakaritva | The quality of acting from distance |
| Apratipatina | Non-extinguishing |
| Apratita | Neither known |
| Apratya Vekshita | Putting down a thing without seeing. |
| Apratyakhyana-kriya | not renouncing what ought to be renounced. |
| Apratyakhyanavarana | Obstructors of partial renunciation |
| Apratyakhyanavaraniya | Partial vow-preventing passions including anger, pride, deceit and greed. |
| Aprayojaka | Immaterial |
| Apta | Authentic |
| Apta-vacana | Statement of an authentic personality |
| Apurva-karana | The process by which the soul attains to an unprecedented degree of purity |
| Arahamta | Prakrit for arhat |
| Arambha | Commencement of a thing - compare attempt in Criminal Law. |
| Arambha-tyaga | Abandonment of merely worldly engagements and occupations. |
| Arambhatyaga-pratima | The eighth stage in which a layman withdraws from all professional commitments |
| Arambhaya-himsa | Violence occurring either accidentally or through the performance of an acceptable occupation |
| Arapa | Hot light; radiant heat; possessed of a brilliant body, which is hot to others but not to the possessor, as the gross radiant earth bodied beings in the sun. |
| Arati | Displeasure in regard to sense activities dissatisfaction. The lamp-waving ceremony |
| Arcana | Worship |
| Ardha naracha samhanana | Semi-unbreakable joints and bones. |
| Ardha-phalaka | Loincloth worn by Svetambara monks |
| Ardha-pudgala-paravartana-kala | The amount of time required for a soul to take in and use up half of the available karmic matter in the universe |
| Arghya | Respectful offering |
| Arham | Identical to arhat |
| Arhat | "Worthy to worship"; an epithet of one who has attained kevalajnana; a synonym for kevalin |
| Arhat Kevali | Omniscient Lord |
| Arhat-Bhakti | Devotion to Arhats or Omniscient Lords. |
| Arihamta | A variant for arahamta |
| Arpitanaya | Implied point of view |
| Arpitanayabhasa | False implied point of view |
| Artha | Meaning of a word |
| Artha (Kaladigata) | Object |
| Artha-kriya | Exercise of casual efficiency |
| Artha-kriyasamartha | Capable of performing any action |
| Artha-naya | Point of view of meaning |
| Artha-nayabhasa | False point of view of meaning |
| Artha-paryaya | Mode of the object |
| Artha-prapakatva | Conveyance of the sense |
| Artha-pratipadaka | Support of truth |
| Artha-samvedana | Manifested in the statement |
| Arthavagraha (Matijnana) | Object-awareness |
| Arupi-ajiva | The four insentient, formless dravyas |
| Aryika | Nuns of the Digambara sect |
| Asad guna udbhavana | proclaiming in oneself the good qualities which one does not possess. |
| Asamgrahika (Naigamanaya) | Non-generic |
| Asamjni | Unable to reason about spiritual matters |
| Asamkhyata | Innumerable |
| Asamyama | Nonrestraint |
| Asatavedaniya | Experience of pain |
| Asatana | Disrespect |
| Asatavedaniya | Unpleasant-feeling |
| Asatpratipaksatva | Non-conclusive |
| Asatva | Non-existence |
| Asatya | Lying |
| Asatya mana | False mind |
| Asatya-Vachana | False |
| Ascarya | Extraordinary event |
| Asharana anupreksha | Unprotectiveness; helplessness. The soul is unprotected from the fruition of karmas. Death, pain, pleasure, success, failure are the necessary results of our acts in this or past lives. |
| Ashrava | Inflow The attraction of good or bad matter by the soul in virtue of its mental, vocal, or bodily activity. |
| Ashrava anupreksa | Inflow. The inflow of karma is the cause of my mudane existence and it is the product of passions, etc. |
| Ashubha | Ugly (body). |
| Ashubha-nama | A Bad-body-making karma |
| Ashuchi | anupreksha Impurity. The body is impure and dirty. |
| Asi | "Sword"; government |
| Asiddha (Hetvabhasa) | Non-existence |
| Asiddhata | Unproved state |
| Asiddhatva | Non-existent |
| Asiddhi | Whose existence cannot be proved |
| Aspasta | Indistinct |
| Asrava | Karmic influx The thought-activity invites the karmic matter into the soul. |
| Asraya | Substratum |
| Astanga | Eight limbs (of samyak-darsana) |
| Asteya | Not stealing |
| Asthira | (unsteady circulation of blood, etc.). |
| Asti-kaya | Having extension |
| Astikya | Affirmation |
| Astitva | Existence |
| Asubha-karma | Unwholesome karma |
| Asva | Horse |
| Aticara | Infractions committed by accident |
| Atidesavakya | Analogical sentence |
| Atisaya-ksetra | Places where miraculous events associated with great monks have occurred |
| Atithi-samvibhaga | Sharing with (ascetic) guests Taking a vow to take one's food only after feeding the ascetivs with a part of it. |
| Ativyapti | Undesirable extension |
| Atma ninda | denouncing one's self |
| Atma prashansa | Praising oneself |
| Atman | Soul; self |
| Atmanubhava | Abiding in one's own nature |
| Atmarthatva | Meant for the self |
| Atmarupa (Kaladigata) | Form |
| Atmasad-guna uchchhadana | not proclaiming one's own good qualities. |
| Attara guna | A kind of production of the dependance relating to the non-soul, i.e., production of books, pictures, statues, etc. |
| Audarika | Physical The physical body of all men and animals. |
| Audarika mishra | Physical with karmic. |
| Audarikasarira | Gross-body of Lord |
| Aupapadika | Born spontaneously |
| Aupasamika | Subsidence |
| Aushbha | Awkward. |
| Avadhi (Jnana) | Clairvoyance |
| Avadhi-darshanavarana | Visual-conation-obscuring. |
| Avadhi-jnanavarana | Visual-knowledge-obscuring |
| Avadhidarsana | The indistinct type of awareness preceding avadhijnana |
| Avadhijnana | Supermundane knowledge such as clairvoyance |
| Avagaha | Penetrability |
| Avagraha (Matijnana) | Determinate perception |
| Avaharana | Distinguishing |
| Avaktavya | Indescribable Inexpressible |
| Avamaudarya | Eating only a very small portion of food |
| Avamodarya | Eating less than one's fill, or less than one has appetite for--external austerity. |
| Avantara samanya | General substance |
| Avapodvapa | Elimination and addition |
| Avarana | The veil |
| Avarana ksaya | Destruction of veil |
| Avaraniya | Obscuring |
| Avarnavada | Causes the right-belief-deluding karmic matter(Darshana). |
| Avasarpini | Descending round Regressive half-cycle |
| Avashyaka-parihari | Not neglecting one's six important daily duties |
| Avastu-nirbhasa | Dealing with no object |
| Avasyaka | Essential duty |
| Avaya (Matijnana) | Perceptual judgment |
| Avayava | Part |
| Avicyuti | Absence of lapse |
| Avidya | Ignorance |
| Avinayeshu | Those who are uncivil or ill-behaved. ?????? |
| Avipaka-nirjara | Inducing a karma to leave the soul by means of a contrary karma, or by means of ascetic practices. |
| Avirata | Vowlessness, non-renunciation. Vowlessness. |
| Avirati | Nonrestraint |
| Aviruddhanupalabdhi (Hetu) | Non-availability of non-contradictory |
| Aviruddhopalabdhi (Hetu) | Availability of non-contradictory |
| Avisamvadakatva | Non-discrepancy |
| Avisvagbhava | All-pervasiveness |
| Aviveka | Lack of discrimination |
| Avrta | Obscured |
| Avyakta | Indeterminate |
| Avyaktaksara | Indistinct sound |
| Ayaga-pata | Votive slabs |
| Ayariya | Prakrit for acarya |
| Ayashah kirti | Notoriety; bringing bad name, even if one does good actions. |
| Ayoga-kevalin | The fourteenth gunasthana, attained by the kevalin when, in the instant before death, all his activities cease |
| Ayu | Age-karma age. |
| Ayu-karma | Karma that determines the span of a given lifetime |