| WORD | MEANING |
| Pada: | Word |
| Padartha-pratibandha: | Indirectly connected with an object |
| Padastha-dhyana: | Concentration upon holy chants |
| Padma-lesya: | Lotus-pink karmic stain |
| Paduka: | Footprint |
| Paindastha-dhyana: | Concentration upon certain objects made up of the elements of matter |
| Paksa: | Thesis |
| Paksa-sadhya-samsarga: | Association of the subject with the probandum |
| Paksa-suddhi: | Purification of the thesis |
| Paksabhana: | Knowledge of the subject |
| Paksadharmata: | Subsistence in the subject |
| Paksadharmatva: | Subsistence in the subject |
| Paksadosa: | Fallacy in the thesis |
| Paksavacana: | Statement of the subject |
| Paksiya sadhya-sadhana-sambandha: | Relationship of the probandum and the probane of the subject |
| Pamana-siddha: | Proved by definite organ of knowledge |
| Panca-kalyana: | The five auspicious events in the life of a Tirthankara; -mahotsava (the celebration of these events) |
| Panca-mahavrata: | see also mahavrata |
| Panca-namaskara-mantra: | see also namaskara-mantra |
| Panca-rupya: | Five characteristics |
| Panchendriya: | Five-sensed. |
| Pani-patra: | Hand-bowl |
| Papa: | Unwholesome karmas |
| Papopadesha: | Preaching of sin to others. |
| Para (Samgraha naya): | Ultimate |
| Para prashansa: | praising others |
| Para-dravya: | The being, location, time, or state, respectively, of other objects |
| Para-pratipatti: | Understanding of others |
| Paraghata: | Destructive; Possessing a limb or organ fatal to others, as a lion's claws, etc. |
| Paramanu: | Atom |
| Paramatman: | The highest [the liberated] soul |
| Paramesthin: | The supreme divinity |
| Paramita: | Perfection |
| Paraninda: | Speaking ill of others. |
| Parartha: | For others (eye etc.) |
| Parartha (Anumana): | For others (i.e. syllogistic) |
| Pararthya: | Meant for others |
| Parasamaya: | The tenants of others |
| Paridevana: | Piteous or pathetic moaning to attract compassion. |
| Parigraha: | Possession Worldly attachment. |
| Parigraha-tyaga: | Preparatory to the monk's life. enjoins a gradual giving up of the world and retiring into some very quiet place to acquire the knowledge of truth and ultimately to become fit to be a teacher of the path to Liberation. |
| Parigrahatyaga-pratima: | The ninth stage in which a layman abandons the cares of worldly possessions |
| Parihara-vishuddhi: | Ideal and passionless conduct. |
| Pariksa: | Examination |
| Parinama: | Modification |
| Parinami-nitya: | Eternal but constantly changing |
| Parinamika: | Existence of knowledge |
| Parinamin: | Changing |
| Paripurna (Naigama): | Non-distinguished in general |
| Parisaha-jaya: | Victory over the afflictions |
| Parishaha: | Sufferings. |
| Parishaha-jaya: | Sub-dual of sufferings |
| Paritapiki-kriya: | Anything which may cause mental pain to oneself or others. |
| Parivrajaka: | A non-Jaina mendicant |
| Parmarthika (Pratyaksa): | Transcendental |
| Paroksa: | Indirect perception, accomplished through the senses, inference, etc. Non-perceptual |
| Paroparodhakarana: | Residence in a place where one is not likely to be prohibited by others nor where one should be likely to prohibit others. |
| Parsad gunaudbhavana: | proclaiming the good qualities of others. |
| Parthivi-dharana: | Visualization of certain scenes by means of the earth element |
| Parvan: | Jaina holy days |
| Paryapta: | rational five-sensed, fully developable soul. |
| Paryapti: | Developable; capable of developing the body. |
| Paryaya: | Mode Mode; a synonym for bhava Modification |
| Paryaya: | Synonym |
| Paryayarthikabhasa: | False point of view of mode |
| Paryayastikanaya: | Point of view of the mode |
| Paryusana-parva: | A ten-day holy period for fasting during the rainy season |
| Pasavaccijja: | Those who follow the discipline of Parsva |
| Patra: | Bowl |
| Paudgalika: | Material |
| Phaddaga: | A chapter of monks |
| Phala: | Fruit Resultant |
| Pinchi: | A peacock-feather whiskbroom |
| Pita: | Yellow. |
| Pita-lesya: | Yellow karmic stain |
| Pitr-loka: | World of the Manes |
| Posadhopavasa: | The third siksavrata and fourth pratima; fasting on the eighth and fourteenth days of each lunar fortnight |
| Posaha-sala: | Fasting hall |
| Prabhavana: | Illumination Propagation of the path of Liberation. |
| Prachala: | Drowsiness. |
| Prachala-prachala: | Heavy drowsiness. |
| Pradesa: | Space-point; amount of karma |
| Pradesha: | Quantity |
| pradesha-bandha: | The particular number of the molecules actually absorbed. |
| Pradeshatva: | Capacity of having some kind of location in space. Spatiality |
| Pradoshiki-kriya: | Tendency to accuse others in anger |
| Prajna: | Wisdom |
| Prakaranasama (Hetvabhasa): | Inconclusive |
| Prakirnaka: | Miscellaneous; a group of Jaina canonical texts; scatterd stars |
| Prakriti: | kind |
| Prakrti: | Original nature of mind and matter in the Samkhya doctrine; types of karma |
| Pralaya: | Demanifestation |
| Pramada: | Carelessness Negligence; carelessness; apathy |
| Pramada-charitra: | Thoughtless or inconsiderate conduct, such as plucking flowers or breaking branches of trees, without any purpose. |
| Pramana: | Dimensions Organ of knowledge |
| Pramana-prasiddhatva: | Definitelly proved |
| Pramana-vikalpa-prasiddatva: | Optionally proved |
| Pramana-vikalpa-siddha | Proved as well as optionally proved |
| Pramanaikadesatva: | Cognising a part of the organ of knowledge |
| Pramanatva: | (No definition given) |
| Pramanavakya: | Statement of the organ of knowledge |
| Pramanya: | Validity |
| Pramatr: | The knower |
| Pramatta-virata: | Total restraint without overcoming pramada; the sixth gunasthana |
| Pramatva: | Organ of knowledge |
| Prameya: | Subject |
| Prameyatva: | Capacity of being known by someone, or of being the subject-matter of knowledge Knowability |
| Pramoda: | Delight at the sight of beings,better qualified or more advanced than ourselves on the path of liberation. |
| Pranatipiki-kriya: | Depriving another of vitalities of age, sense-organs, power or respiration. |
| Pranayama: | Yogic control of respiration |
| Prapyakarita: | Working in close contact |
| Prapyakaritva: | Contactory nature |
| Prarambha-kriya: | trying to persevere in one's attachment to worldly belongings. |
| Prasama: | Ease |
| Prasanga-viparyaya: | Perverted cause |
| Prasiddha: | Proved |
| Prasna: | Question |
| Prasnadesa: | Astrologer (who answers questions) |
| Prasnika: | Who asks question |
| Prati-narayana: | A Jaina literary type; the villian |
| Pratibandha: | Hindrance |
| Pratiharya: | Miraculous phenomenon |
| Pratijna: | Thesis |
| Pratikramana: | Ritualized confession |
| Pratima: | Stages of renunciation for a layman |
| Pratimas: | The Eleven stages of the Householder's Life. |
| Pratipatin (Avadhi): | Extinguishing |
| Pratisedha: | Negation |
| Pratisedha-sadhaka (Hetu): | Which proves something negative |
| Pratisedharupa (Hetu): | Negative |
| Pratisrika: | Each one of them |
| Pratita: | Obstructed |
| Prativadin: | Opponent |
| Pratyabhijna: | Recognition |
| Pratyakhyana: | Renunciation of certain foods; one of the six avasayakas |
| Pratyakhyanavarananiya: | Obstructors of complete renunciation |
| Pratyakhyanavaraniya: | Total-vow-preventing passions including anger, pride, deceit and greed. |
| Pratyaksa: | Direct perception Perceptual cognition |
| Pratyaksa viruddha: | Contradicted by perceptual cognition |
| Pratyaksagamya: | Perceived directly |
| Pratyayiki-kriya: | Inventing new sense-enjoyments. |
| Pratyeka: | Individual; solitary |
| Pratyeka sharira: | Individual body; A body enjoyable by one soul only. |
| Pratyeka Sharira-Vargana: | Individual body-molecule |
| Pravacana-matrka: | The eight exercises that prepare a monk for advanced meditational states |
| Pravachana-bhakti: | Devotion to Scriptures. |
| Pravachanavatsalatva: | Tender affection for one's brothers on the path of liberation. |
| Pravrajya: | Renunciation |
| Pravrttinimitta: | Usage |
| Prayascitta: | Repentence of transgressions |
| Prayashchitta: | Expiation--internal austerity. |
| Prayoga-kriya: | bodily movement. |
| Prayogya-labdhi: | Reduction of karmic matter in soul attainment of purity due to such a reduction |
| Prayojaka-vrddha: | A man, who comprehends the word |
| Prayojya-vrddha: | Elder person, who is asked to do a thing |
| Proshadhopavasa: | Fortnightly must fast. Taking a vow to fast on 4 days of the month,viz. the two 8th and the two 14th days of every lunar fortnight. |
| Prthvi-kayika: | Earthbodies |
| Psadha-pratima: | The fourth sravaka-pratima |
| Pudgala: | Matter |
| Pudgala Dravya: | Matter-Substance |
| pudgala-skandha: | Aggregate of matter |
| Pudgalavadin: | Follower of Buddhist school which upholds a theory of soul |
| Puja: | Worship |
| Pumveda: | Masculine. Sexual cravings for a female |
| Punya-karma: | Wholesome karma |
| Punya-ksetra: | Field of merit |
| Puranas: | Name of a class of sacred texts dealing with the lives of Tirthankaras |
| Purusa: | Person Soul |
| Purusa-visesa: | Special soul, i.e., the God (Isvara) of the Yoga school |
| Purusaveda: | Male-sex-consciousness |
| Purva: | A group of fourteen Jaina canonical texts, now extinct |
| Purva ratanu smarana-tyaga: | Renouncing of thinking over, remembrance of past enjoyment of women. |
| Purvacara (Hetu): | Predecessor |
| Purvacaranupalabdhi: | Non-availability of the predecessor |
| Puspa: | Flower |