| WORD | MEANING |
| Daksina-agni: | One of the sacred fires in the Hindu srauta ritual |
| Dana: | Charity |
| Dana Antaraya: | Charity-Obstructive. |
| Dana-antaraya: | A type of karma that hinders the practice of charity |
| Dandin: | One who carries a staff |
| Darsana: | Indeterminate intuition, faith Intuition; a system of philosophy; insight; perception |
| Darsana-mohaniya: | Insight-deluding karmas |
| Darsana-pratima: | The first step on the ladder of pratima |
| Darsanavaraniya: | Perception-obscuring karmas |
| Darsantika: | Thesis |
| Darshana: | Faith. |
| Darshana mohaniya: | right-belief-deluding karmic matter |
| Darshana-kriya: | infatuated desire to see a pleasing form. |
| Darshana-mohaniya: | Right-belief-deluding. |
| Darshana-vishuddhi: | purity of right-belief |
| Darshanavarana: | Conation-obscuring |
| Dasa-dharma: | Ten forms of righteousness |
| Dashaya: | Astringent, (Saline). |
| Desa-virata: | The fifth gunasthana where desa-virati is attained |
| Desa-virati: | The set of restraints prescribed for a Jaina layman |
| Desana-labdhi: | Obtaining instruction in the Jaina teachings |
| Desavakasika: | Limiting the area of one's movement |
| Desha-Katha: | Scandal |
| Deshavrata: | Taking a vow to limit worldly activity to fixed points for a short period of time, for example,for one's weely or daily worldly activity. |
| Deva: | Celestial. Heavenly beings; untimate divinity The Celestial beings |
| Deva Anupurvi: | Celestial--migratory form. |
| Deva-Ayu: | Celestial-age-karma |
| Deva-brahmana: | Divine brahman, i.e., a Jaina brahman |
| Deva-dusya: | Divine cloth; a finely woven piece of cloth |
| Deva-mudhata: | Delusion pertaining to gods |
| Deva-nikayas: | The four orders of gods |
| Devagama: | The arrival of gods at a holy gathering |
| Devajiva: | Soul of the god |
| Devanupurvi: | The power of retaining the last form whatever it was, in going to the celestial condition of existence. |
| Devapuja: | Worship of the Tirthankaras |
| Devayu: | Celestial age. |
| Dharana: | Retention |
| Dharma: | Attribute Holy law; elements in Buddhist doctrine; righteousness, ten forms Observances Principle of Motion The true Religion |
| Dharma svakhya tattvanupreksha: | Nature of Right-Path as said by the conquerors. The true nature of Truth, i.e., the three fold path to real Liberation. |
| Dharma-dravya: | The principle of motion |
| Dharma-katha: | Religious tale |
| Dharma-labha: | Increase in righteousness |
| Dharma-svakhyatatva: | The absolutely true teachings of the Jinas |
| Dharma-tirtha: | Holy path |
| Dharmadhyana: | Virtuous concentration |
| Dharmin: | Subject |
| Dhrauvya: | Continuance |
| Dhruva (Matijnana): | Constant |
| Dhruva Shunya-Vargana: | Fixed-indifferent-molecule |
| Dhruva Vargana: | Fixed-molecule |
| Dhupa: | Incense |
| Dhvani: | The word |
| Dhyana: | Concentration--internal austerity. Meditation |
| Digambara: | Sky-clad; name of the Jaina sect whose mendicants practice ascetic nudity |
| Digha-tapassi: | One who engages in extended penances |
| Digvrata: | Restriction on the distances a person may travel |
| Diksa: | Initiation |
| Dipa: | Lamp |
| Divyadhvani: | Miraculous sound |
| Dosa: | Imperfection |
| Dravya: | Substance; external |
| Dravya (Niksepa): | Substance |
| Dravya-carya: | Nominal acarya |
| Dravya-mana: | Mind-qua-substance The physical basis of the mind |
| Dravya-puja: | Form of worship employing external objects |
| Dravya-samyaktva: | The external aspect of true insight |
| Dravyadeva: | Substantial symbol of god |
| Dravyajiva: | Substantial soul |
| Dravyajivatva: | Substantial soul |
| Dravyakalpana: | Distinction of substance |
| Dravyakriya: | Pseudo-action |
| Dravyanikaramba: | Substance transformed into sense-data |
| Dravyartha: | Through the substance |
| Dravyarthika: | Of the substance |
| Dravyarthikabhasa: | False point of view of substance |
| Dravyarthikanaya: | Point of the substance |
| Dravyastikanaya: | Material point of view |
| Dravyatmaka: | Substantial |
| Dravyatva: | capacity by which it is always changing in modifications. Change-ability Substantial soul |
| Dravyendra: | Sense qua substance |
| Drsta: | Perception |
| Drstanta: | Example |
| Drstanta-dosa: | Fallacy of example |
| Duh-pramrishta: | Putting down a thing petulantly or peevishly. |
| Duhshruti: | Reading or hearing bad books. |
| Duhsvara: | Harsh-voiced, noisy. |
| Dukha: | Pain |
| Durbhaga: | unprepossessing; even though beautiful. |
| Durbhiksa: | Famine |
| Durgamdha: | Evil-smelling; mal-odorous. |
| Dusama: | Unhappy |
| Dusama-dusama: | Extremely unhappy |
| Dvesa: | Hatred; aversion |
| Dvesha: | Hatred in the pleasing and displeasing wordly objects of the five senses. |
| Dvija: | Twice-born |
| Dvindriya: | Two-sensed. |
| Dvipa: | Island |
| Dvipa-samudra: | Island-continent |