| WORD | MEANING |
| Caitanya: | Consciousness |
| Caitya: | Temple |
| Caityavasi: | Temple-dweller |
| Cakravartin: | Universal monarch |
| Caksuradijanita: | Effected by eyes etc. |
| Caksurdarsana: | Visual perception |
| Candala: | Untouchable; a synonym for svapaka |
| Candana: | Sandalwood paste |
| Carana: | Practice |
| Caritra: | Conduct |
| Caritra-mohaniya: | Conduct-deluding karmas |
| Caru: | Sweet |
| Catuhsarana: | The four refuges |
| Caturvimsati-stava: | Sanskrit caturyama-samvara; a synonym for caujjama-dhamma |
| Caujjama-dhamma: | Sanskrit caturyama-dharma, the fourfold restraint ascribed to Parsva |
| Chadmastha: | A person in the state of bondage in this universe. |
| Chakshu-darshanavarana: | Ocular-Conation-obscuring. |
| Charitras: | Right-conduct. |
| Chaundriya: | Four-sensed. |
| Cheda: | Reduction in seniority |
| Cheda-sutra: | A law book dealing with monastic offences |
| Chetanatva: | along with Amurtatva, is a common attribute of the class of substance, orgroup of attributes,called Soul. Consciousness |
| Citrajnana: | Knowledge of the picture |
| Culika: | Appendix; a class of Jaina cononical texts |
| Cyavamana: | Negligent |