| WORD | MEANING |
| Anutseka: | Not being proud of one's own achievement or attainments. |
| Anuvichi-bhashana: | Speaking in accordance with scriptural injunctions. |
| Anuvratas: | Minor vows pertaining only to laypeople |
| Anuyoga: | Exposition; a group of postcanonical texts |
| Anvaya: | Concomitance in agreement |
| Anvayadharma: | Quality |
| Anyatarasiddha: | Unproved for either of the two |
| Anyathanupapatti: | Logical impossibility in the absence of the other |
| Anyatva anupreksha: | Sepatateness. Otherness. The world, my relations and friends, my body, and mind, they are all distinct and separate from my real self. |
| Apadhyana: | Thinking ill of others. |
| Apara (Samgrahanaya): | Non-ultimate (generic) |
| Aparamarthika: | Empirical |
| Aparigraha: | Nonpossession |
| Aparinamin: | Unchanging |
| Aparyapti: | Undevelopable; Incapable of developing the body fully. |
| Aparyavasita (Srutajnana): | Having no end |
| Apavartana: | Energy that hastens the time and decreases the intensity of karmic fruition |
| Apaya: | Perceptual judgment |
| Apayavicaya: | Contemplation on the means by which beings can be saved |
| Apo-kayika: | Water-bodies |
| Apradhanacarya: | Nominal acarya |
| Apramanatva: | Invalidity |
| Apramatta-virata: | Restraint not vitiated by carelessness, the seventh gunasthana |
| Apramatva: | Non-organ of knowledge |
| Aprapyakaritva: | The quality of acting from distance |
| Apratipatina: | Non-extinguishing |
| Apratita: | Neither known |
| Apratya Vekshita: | Putting down a thing without seeing. |
| Apratyakhyana-kriya: | not renouncing what ought to be renounced. |
| Apratyakhyanavarana: | Obstructors of partial renunciation |
| Apratyakhyanavaraniya: | Partial vow-preventing passions including anger, pride, deceit and greed. |
| Aprayojaka: | Immaterial |
| Apta: | Authentic |
| Apta-vacana: | Statement of an authentic personality |
| Apurva-karana: | The process by which the soul attains to an unprecedented degree of purity |
| Arahamta: | Prakrit for arhat |
| Arambha: | Commencement of a thing - compare attempt in Criminal Law. |
| Arambha-tyaga: | Abandonment of merely worldly engagements and occupations. |
| Arambhatyaga-pratima: | The eighth stage in which a layman withdraws from all professional commitments |
| Arambhaya-himsa: | Violence occurring either accidentally or through the performance of an acceptable occupation |
| Arapa: | Hot light; radiant heat; possessed of a brilliant body, which is hot to others but not to the possessor, as the gross radiant earth bodied beings in the sun. |
| Arati: | Displeasure in regard to sense activities dissatisfaction. |
| The lamp-waving ceremony | |
| Arcana: | Worship |
| Ardha naracha samhanana: | Semi-unbreakable joints and bones. |
| Ardha-phalaka: | Loincloth worn by Svetambara monks |
| Ardha-pudgala-paravartana-kala: | The amount of time required for a soul to take in and use up half of the available karmic matter in the universe |
| Arghya: | Respectful offering |
| Arham: | Identical to arhat |
| Arhat: | Worthy to worship; an epithet of one who has attained kevalajnana; a synonym for kevalin |
| Arhat Kevali: | Omniscient Lord |
| Arhat-Bhakti: | Devotion to Arhats or Omniscient Lords. |
| Arihamta: | A variant for arahamta |
| Arpitanaya: | Implied point of view |
| Arpitanayabhasa: | False implied point of view |
| Artha: | Meaning of a word |
| Artha (Kaladigata): | Object |
| Artha-kriya: | Exercise of casual efficiency |
| Artha-kriyasamartha: | Capable of performing any action |
| Artha-naya: | Point of view of meaning |
| Artha-nayabhasa: | False point of view of meaning |
| Artha-paryaya: | Mode of the object |
| Artha-prapakatva: | Conveyance of the sense |
| Artha-pratipadaka: | Support of truth |
| Artha-samvedana: | Manifested in the statement |
| Arthavagraha (Matijnana): | Object-awareness |
| Arupi-ajiva: | The four insentient, formless dravyas |
| Aryika: | Nuns of the Digambara sect |
| Asad guna udbhavana: | proclaiming in oneself the good qualities which one does not possess. |
| Asamgrahika (Naigamanaya): | Non-generic |
| Asamjni: | Unable to reason about spiritual matters |
| Asamkhyata: | Innumerable |
| Asamprapta sripatika samhanana: | Loosely jointed bones. |
| Asamyama: | Nonrestraint |
| Asankyatanu-Vargana: | Innumerable-atoms-molecule |
| Asarira: | Free from embodiment; a siddha |
| Asat-khyati: | Knowledge of a non-existent thing |
| Asata-vedaniya: | Pain-feeling; that which brings pain. The inflow of pain-bringing-feeling |
| Asata, Asatavedaniya: | Experience of pain |
| Asatana: | Disrespect |
| Asatavedaniya: | Unpleasant-feeling |
| Asatpratipaksatva: | Non-conclusive |
| Asatva: | Non-existence |
| Asatya: | Lying |
| Asatya mana: | False mind |
| Asatya-Vachana: | FALSE |
| Ascarya: | Extraordinary event |
| Asharana anupreksha: | Unprotectiveness; helplessness. The soul is unprotected from the fruition of karmas. Death, pain, pleasure, success, failure are the necessary results of our acts in this or past lives. |
| Ashrava: | Inflow |
| The attraction of good or bad matter by the soul in virtue of its mental, vocal, or bodily activity. | |
| Ashrava anupreksa: | Inflow. The inflow of karma is the cause of my mudane existence and it is the product of passions, etc. |
| Ashubha: | Ugly (body). |
| Ashubha-nama: | A Bad-body-making karma |
| Ashuchi anupreksha: | Impurity. The body is impure and dirty. |
| Asi: | Sword; government |
| Asiddha (Hetvabhasa): | Non-existence |
| Asiddhata: | Unproved state |
| Asiddhatva: | Non-existent |
| Asiddhi: | Whose existence cannot be proved |
| Aspasta: | Indistinct |
| Asrava: | Karmic influx |
| activities inviting the karmic matter into the soul. | |
| Asraya: | Substratum |
| Astanga: | Eight limbs (of samyak-darsana) |
| Asteya: | Not stealing |
| Asthira: | (unsteady circulation of blood, etc.). |
| Asti-kaya: | Having extension |
| Astikya: | Affirmation |
| Astitva: | Existence |
| Asubha-karma: | Unwholesome karma |
| Asva: | Horse |
| Aticara: | Infractions committed by accident |
| Atidesavakya: | Analogical sentence |
| Atisaya-ksetra: | Places where miraculous events associated with great monks have occurred |
| Atithi-samvibhaga: | Sharing with (ascetic) guests |
| Taking a vow to take one's food only after feeding the ascetivs with a part of it. | |
| Ativyapti: | Undesirable extension |
| Atma ninda: | denouncing one's self |
| Atma prashansa: | Praising oneself |
| Atman: | Soul; self |
| Atmanubhava: | Abiding in one's own nature |
| Atmarthatva: | Meant for the self |
| Atmarupa (Kaladigata): | Form |
| Atmasad-guna uchchhadana: | not proclaiming one's own good qualities. |
| Attara guna: | A kind of production of the dependance relating to the non-soul, i.e., production of books, pictures, statues, etc. |
| Audarika: | Physical |
| The physical body of all men and animals. | |
| Audarika mishra: | Physical with karmic. |
| Audarikasarira: | Gross-body of Lord |
| Aupapadika: | Born spontaneously |
| Aupasamika: | Subsidence |
| Aushbha: | Awkward. |
| Avadhi (Jnana): | Clairvoyance |
| Avadhi-darshanavarana: | Visual-conation-obscuring. |
| Avadhi-jnanavarana: | Visual-knowledge-obscuring |
| Avadhidarsana: | The indistinct type of awareness preceding avadhijnana |
| Avadhijnana: | Supermundane knowledge such as clairvoyance |
| Avagaha: | Penetrability |
| Avagraha (Matijnana): | Determinate perception |
| Avaharana: | Distinguishing |
| Avaktavya: | Indescribable |
| Inexpressible | |
| Avamaudarya: | Eating only a very small portion of food |
| Avamodarya: | Eating less than one's fill, or less than one has appetite for--external austerity. |
| Avantara samanya: | General substance |
| Avapodvapa: | Elimination and addition |
| Avarana: | The veil |
| Avarana ksaya: | Destruction of veil |
| Avaraniya: | Obscuring |
| Avarnavada: | Causes the right-belief-deluding karmic matter(Darshana). |
| Avasarpini: | Descending round |
| Regressive half-cycle | |
| Avashyaka-parihari: | Not neglecting one's six important daily duties |
| Avastu-nirbhasa: | Dealing with no object |
| Avasyaka: | Essential duty |
| Avaya (Matijnana): | Perceptual judgment |
| Avayava: | Part |
| Avicyuti: | Absence of lapse |
| Avidya: | Ignorance |
| Avinayeshu: | Those who are uncivil or ill-behaved. ?????? |
| Avipaka-nirjara: | Inducing a karma to leave the soul by means of a contrary karma, or by means of ascetic practices. |
| Avirata: | Vowlessness, non-renunciation. Vowlessness. |
| Avirati: | Nonrestraint |
| Aviruddhanupalabdhi (Hetu): | Non-availability of non-contradictory |
| Aviruddhopalabdhi (Hetu): | Availability of non-contradictory |
| Avisamvadakatva: | Non-discrepancy |
| Avisvagbhava: | All-pervasiveness |
| Aviveka: | Lack of discrimination |
| Avrta: | Obscured |
| Avyakta: | Indeterminate |
| Avyaktaksara: | Indistinct sound |
| Ayaga-pata: | Votive slabs |
| Ayariya: | Prakrit for acarya |
| Ayashah kirti: | Notoriety; bringing bad name, even if one does good actions. |
| Ayoga-kevalin: | The fourteenth gunasthana, attained by the kevalin when, in the instant before death, all his activities cease |
| Ayu: | Age-karma |
| age. | |
| Ayu-karma: | Karma that determines the span of a given lifetime |