| 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 |