Samiti: carefulness
Samsara: cycle of transmigration
Samsari-jivas: mundane souls, embodied souls
Samyag-jnana: right knowledge
Samyak: right
Samyak-charitra: right conduct
Samyaktva: firm faith in Jaina religion/realities
Samyama: practice of self-control
Samvara: the stopping of asrava
Sangraha naya: the class point of view
Sankalpa: preconceived idea
Sankalpi himsa: intentional injury
Samsaya: doubt
Samnyasa-asrama: the last life stage of absolute renunciation
saptabhangi: another name of Anekantavada, the doctrine of
seven-fold predication
Sat: reality
Satya: truth, abstention from false speech
Sabda naya: the verbal view point
Sanka: doubt, scepticism
Sastra: scripture
Siddha jiva: a liberated soul
Sila-vratas: supplementary vows
Sopadana: propriety of behaviour
Sravaka: male householder, a layman
Sravaka-dharma: ethical code for layman
Sravaka-gunas: qualities of an ideal householder
Sravika: female householder, a lay-woman
Sruta-jnana: scriptural knowledge
Sthanaka: a building meant for prayer and religious activities
Sthanakvasi: a major sub-sect of Svetambara sect, Stahanak-resident
Sthanaka: a building meant for prayer and religious activities
Sthanakvasi: a major sub-sect of Svetambara sect, Sthanaka-residents
Sthavara jiva: immobile soul
Sthavirakalpi Sadhus : ascetics who observe their rules of
conduct in a milder form
Subha-asrava: influx of virtue or meritorious karmas
Suddha ammaya: pure and sacred tradition
Sukla dhyan: pure mediation
Suksma-sampraya: all but entire freedom form passion
Sutra: aphoristic expression
Svadhyaya: study of scriptures
Svetambara: white-clad, name of a major sect of Jainas
Swastika: the particular sign considered propitious
Syadvada: many-sided view-point, the doctrine of qualified
assertion
Syat: in some respect, some how, in a way
Tapa: penance, austerity
Tapa-mada: pride of penance or religious austerities
Tarana-pantha: name of a sub-sect of Digambara sect, name of a
major sub-sect of Svetambara sect
Tattva: principle, reality
Tejah-kaya jiva: a fire-bodied soul
Terapantha: name of a major sub-sect of Digambara sect, name of
a major sub-sect of Svetambara sect
Tirtha: the contrivance which helps to cross the great ocean of
worldly life
Tirthankara: one who makes the Tirtha, ford-maker across the
stream of existence, Great Guide, promulgator
Tirthankara Kevali: the Kevali showing the path of salvation to
all beings
Tiryancha-gati: sub-human form
Trasa jiva: a mobile soul
Tri-indriya jivas: souls having first-three senses of touch,
taste and smell
Udyami himsa: occupational injury
Upabhoga-paribhoga-parimana-vrata: a vow to limit enjoyment of
consumable and non-consumable things
Upadhyaya: the sadhu in charge of instruction
Upamana: analogy
Upasraya: a building meant for stay of Svetambara ascetics
Utpada: origination, appearance
Utsarga-samiti: regulation of movements connected with answering
calls of nature
Utsarpini: ascending
Uttama-akinchanya: supreme non-attachment
Uttama-arjava: supreme simplicity
Uttama-brahamacharya: supreme chastity
Uttma-dharma: supreme virtue
Uttama-ksama: supreme forgiveness
Uttama-mardava: supreme humility or tenderness
Uttama-samyama: supreme self-restraint
Uttama-satya: supreme truthfulness
Uttama-saucha: supreme purity
Uttama-tapa: supreme austerity
Uttama-tyaga: supreme renunciation
Vachana-yoga: activity of speech
Vag-gupti: stoppage of speech
Vaiyavrttya: rendering service to saints
Vanaprastha-asrama: the third stage in life of retirement form
worldly activities
Vanaspati-kaya jiva: vegetable bodied and bacteria type soul
Vapu-mada: pride of body or beautiful form or appearance
Vayu-kaya jiva: air-bodied soul
Vedaniya karma: the feeling karma
Vibhrama: vagueness, indefiniteness
Vichikitsa: disgust of anything
Vikala-charitra: partial or qualified conduct
Vimoha: attachment, delusion
Vinaya: reverent attitude, modest behaviour
Virodhi himsa: protective injury
Vivikta-sayyasana: sitting and sleeping in a secluded place
Vrata: a vow
Vrati: a person who observes vratas
Vrtti-parisamkhyana: taking a mental vow regarding acceptance of
food
Vyavahara-naya: the practical point of view
vyaya: destruction, disappearance
Vyutsarga: giving up attachment to the body
Yathakhyata: ideal and passionless conduct
Yati: a male ascetic
Yoga: activity of mind, speech and body.
