| WORD | MEANING |
| Ubhaya mana: | Mixed true and false mind. |
| Ubhaya-Vachana: | Both true and false. |
| Ubhayasambandha (Vyanjana): | Relation of the two, i.e. contact-awareness and object-awareness |
| Ubhayasiddha: | Proved both ways |
| Ubhayasiddha (Hetvabhasa): | Unproved for both |
| Ucchedavada: | Doctrine of annihilation after death |
| Ucchedavadin: | Annihilationist |
| Ucchvasa: | Sigh |
| Uchcha: | Gotra high family. |
| Uchchhvasa: | Respiration. |
| Udaya: | Arising |
| Uddistatyaga-pratima: | The eleventh stage, in which a layman renounces any food or lodging that has been specifically prepared for him |
| Uddistha-tyaga: | Preparatory to the monk's life. enjoins a gradual giving up of the world and retiring into osme very quiet place to acquire the knowledge of truth and ultimately to become fit to be a teacher of the path to Liberation. |
| Udirana: | Energy that makes possible the premature fruition of karmas |
| Udumbara: | Fig |
| Udvartana: | Energy that delays the time and increases the intensity of karmic fruition |
| Udyota: | cold light, phosphorescence; cold light like moonshine. |
| Uha (Pramana): | Inductive reasoning |
| Ullekha: | Mention |
| Upa-brimhana: | Also Upa guhana, advancement in one's own attributes. Free from a tendency to proclaim the foults of others. |
| Upabhoga: | Repeated enjoyment |
| Upabhoga-antaraya: | Hindrance to repeated enjoyment |
| Upabhoga, pari bhoga parimana: | Taking a vow every day limiting one's enjoyment of consumable and non-consumable things. |
| Upabhogha Antaraya: | obstuctive of Re-enjoyment of non-consumable things. |
| Upacara: | Transference of epithet |
| Upadana-karana: | Material cause |
| Upadhyaya: | Preceptor |
| Upaghata: | Self-destructive; Having a self-destructive limb or organ, as a stag's horns. |
| Upaguhana: | Protecting a fellow Jaina |
| Upakara: | Effect |
| Upakarana: | Mixing up of things necessary for doing any act. |
| Upakaranendriya: | Physical sense-organ |
| Upakarin: | Effect |
| Upalambha: | Observation |
| Upamana (Pramana): | Analogy |
| Upanaya: | Application |
| Upanayana: | Ceremony of initiation |
| Upanga: | Minor limb Subsidiary to the Anga; a group of twelve canonical texts |
| Upaniti: | The ceremony of initiation for a layman |
| Upapata: | Rebirth in hell or heaven |
| Upapatti: | Concomitant |
| Upasaka: | A Jaina layman; a synonym for sravaka |
| Upasaka-pratima: | The eleven stages of laymanship, a synonym for sravaka-pratima |
| Upasama: | Suppression |
| Upasamana: | Energy that temporarily prevents karmas from coming to fruition |
| Upasamharavacana: | Concluding words |
| Upasanta-moha: | The eleventh gunasthana, in which all caritra-mohaniya karmas are briefly rendered inoperative |
| Upasarga: | Calamity Preposition |
| Upatta: | Of the matter assimilated as karma and non-karma by the soul, that which is accepted by the soul. |
| Upayoga: | Applied consciousness Conscious activity |
| Upayogendriya: | Functioning sense |
| Urdhva-loka: | The celestial world |
| Ushna: | Hot. |
| Utkrama: | Perverted order |
| Utpada: | Birth Comes into existence Origin; acquisition |
| Utpala-patra-satavyati-bheda: | Like the piercing of the hundred petals of a lotus |
| Utsarga-samiti: | Care in performing the excretory functions |
| Utsarpini: | Ascending round Progressive half-cycle |
| Uttama arjava: | Supreme Straight-forwardness, (Honesty). |
| Uttama mardava: | Supreme Jumility |
| Uttama samyama: | Supreme Restraint. |
| Uttama satya: | Supreme truth. |
| Uttama-akinchanya: | Supreme non-attachment. Not taking the non-self for one's own self. |
| Uttama-brahmacharya: | Supreme Chastity. |
| Uttama-kshama: | Supreme Forgiveness |
| Uttama-shaucha: | Supreme contentment. |
| Uttama-tapa: | Supreme Austerities. |
| Uttama-tyaga: | Supreme Renunciation. |
| Uttaracara: | Successor |
| Uttaracaranupalabdhi (Hetu): | Non-availability of the follower |
| Uvajjhaya: | Prakrit for upadhyaya |