"L"
Labdhi (Attainment,
psychic sense)
Lakshana (Differentia)
Laukantika Devas
(Celestial saints, gods of 5th heaven)
Labhantaraya
(Obstructive karma of gain, i.e., hindrance to the attainment of something)
Leshya (Thought
complexion, degrees of passions & purity)
Linga (Sex, sign)
Lobha (Greed)
Loka (Universe)
Loka-akash (The
universe-space)
Loka-mudhata (False
beliefs regarding religious practices)
"M"
Madhu (Honey)
Madhyaloka (Middle of
terrestrial world)
Madya (Alcohol)
Madhyastha
(Indifference)
Mahavrata (The five
great vows of a monk)
Manahparyaya jnana
(Telepathy, direct knowledge of thought forms of others without the aid of
mind or senses)
Mantra (Incantation,
holy litany)
Manushya (Human being)
Manushya-Gati (Human
state of existence)
Mati jnana (Sensory
knowledge)
Marga (Path)
Maya (Deceitfulness)
Meru (Mount, sudarshan
meru)
Mishra-bhava (Mixed
state or disposition)
Mishra-Gunasthana
(Mixed spiritual stage of right and wrong belief, 3rd Gunasthana)
Mithyadarshana (Wrong
belief, misbelief, wrongfaith, synonym for Mithyatva)
Mithya-charitra (Wrong
conduct)
**Brahama**
Mithyajnana (Wrong
knowledge)
Mithyatva (Misbelief)
Mithyatva Gunasthana
(The 1st spiritual stage of misbelief)
Moha (Delusion,
infatuation)
Mohaniya karma
(Deluding karma)
Moksha (Liberation,
emancipation, salvation)
Moksha Marga (The path
of liberation)
Muhurta (48 minutes'
period)
Mukta (Liberated soul)
Mulguna (The eight
basic restraints of a Jaina layman)
Muni (A monk)
Murta (Material, of
matter form)
"N"
Naraka (Infernal
abode, hell)
Naya (Standpoint)
Nama-karma
(Physique-making karma)
Namaskar-mantra [
Salutation to(five) holy beings (souls) ]
Nama Nikshepa
(Installation by name)
Narakas (Infernal
beings)
Nidana (Diagnosis,
seeking temporal gain from austerities, etc. good deeds)
Nidana-salya (The
sting of desire for enjoyment)
Nigoda (The lowest
form of life i.e, undeveloped one-sensed beings, e.g. moss, fungus,roots,
etc.)
Nihkankshita (Freedom
from anticipation)
Nihshankita (Freedom
from doubt about 7 tattuas, true God, preceptor, scriptures, etc.)
Nimitta-karana
(Instrumental cause, external agent)
Nimitta-naimittika
(Cause and effect relationship)
Nikshepa
(Installation)
Nirdesha (Description)
Nirgrantha (A monk
without material possessions, unattached)
Nirjara (Dissociation
of karmas)
Nirvana (Salvation,
complete release from bondage)
Nirvichikitsa (Freedom
from disgust)
Nishchaya Naya (The
real point of view, realistic standpoint)
Nitya (Eternal)
Nokashayas
(Quasi-passions)
"O"
'Om' (A synonym for
five holy souls, sacred sound formed by combining the first syllable of each
word in the namaskar- mantra)
"P"
Padartha (Substances,
category, elements)
Palya, Palyopama (Many
many years period, innumerable years, a measure of max. Iifetime)
Papa (Vice, sin,
inauspicious act, demerit)
Papa-bhava
(Inauspicious dispositions)
Paramanu (An
indivisible particle of matter, matter substance)
Para-dravya-kshetra-kala-bhava~
(The being or substance-location or space-time or state, quality of
disposition respectively of other objects or substances)
Paramatma (The
omniscient, the liberated soul)
Parameshthi (The five
supreme souls--Arhant, Siddha, Acharya, Upad hyaya &Sad hu)
Parigraha (Possession)
Pariksha (Examination)
Parinama (Thought
activity, disposition, change or modification)
Parivartana (Cycle of
wanderings)
Parishaha (A~lictions)
