| WORD | MEANING |
| Nabho-Vargana: | Sphere-molecule |
| Naicayika: | Transcendental |
| Naigama (Naya): | Non-distinguished |
| Naigamabhasa: | False point of view of the non-distinguished |
| Nama | Body-making Karma |
| Nama (Niksepa): | Symbol of name |
| Nama-Jaina: | Nominal Jaina |
| Nama-karma: | Karma that determines destinies and body types |
| Namadinayasamudayavada: | Combination of the points of view of name etc. |
| Namadiniksepa: | Symbols of names etc. |
| Namajiva: | Name symbol of soul |
| Namaskara-mantra: | Reverent salutation to the [five] holy beings |
| Namaskaraniksepa: | Symbol of salutation |
| Namatmaka: | Form of the name |
| Namendra: | The name `Indra' |
| Nandyavarta: | A kind of diagram |
| Napumsaka Veda: | Common sex. |
| Napumsakaveda: | Sexual cravings for a hermaphrodite |
| Naracha-Samhanana: | Unbreakable joints and bones. |
| Naraka: | Hell; the world of infernal beings Hellish. |
| Naraka Anupurvi: | Hellish--migratory form. |
| Narakayu: | hellish age. |
| Narakayu karma: | Hellish age karma |
| Naraki: | Hell beings |
| Narayana: | A Jaina literary type; the hero's companion and slayer of the villian |
| Nasti: | Does not exist; the second member of the sapta-bhangi-naya |
| Nastitva: | Non-existence |
| Naya: | Partial truth |
| View; partial expression of truth | |
| Nayabhasa: | False point of view |
| Nayana: | Sight |
| Nayavada: | Doctrine of nayas |
| Nayavakya: | Statement from a point of view |
| Nicha Gotra: | Low family. |
| Nichaih Vritti: | an attitude of humility towards one's betters. |
| Nidana: | Seeking worldly gain from the performance of good deeds and austerities |
| The thorn of desire for future sense-pleasures. | |
| Nidhatti: | Energy that renders karmas incapable of all activity save changes in fruition time and intensity |
| Nidra: | Sleep |
| Nidra-Nidra: | Deep sleep. |
| Nigamana: | Conclusion |
| Nigantha: | Nirgrantha |
| Unattached, without possessions; ancient name for the Jaina community | |
| Nigoda: | The lowest form of life |
| Nigraha: | Defeat |
| proper control over mind, speech and body. | |
| Nigrahadhikarana: | Place for defeat |
| Nigrhita: | Defeated |
| Nihkamksita: | Freedom from anticipation |
| Nihksepa (Niksepa): | The different ways of putting a thing |
| Nihnava: | Falsehood, heresy |
| Nihpratikara: | Unavoidable |
| Nihsankita: | Freedom from doubt |
| Nikacana: | Energy that renders karmas incapable of all activity |
| Nila: | Blue |
| Nila-lesya: | Blue karmic stain |
| Nimitta-karana: | External efficient cause |
| Nir vichikitsita: | Free from repulsion from anything. |
| Nirakrta: | Refuted |
| Niranvaya: | Discrete |
| Nirjara: | Dissociation of karmas |
| The falling away of karmic matter from the soul. | |
| The gradual shedding of the matter already boundis shedding | |
| Nirjara anupreksha: | Shedding. Karmic matter must be shed from or shaken out of the soul. |
| Nirmana: | Formation; proper formation of limbs and minor limbs in relation to their situation and dimensions. |
| Nirnitavipaksavrttika: | Whose existence in the hetrologous is decisive |
| Nirukti: | Etymology |
| Nirvana: | Release from bondage; the final death of an enlightened human being [arhat] followed immediately by moksa |
| Nirvana-bhumi: | The place at which a Tirthankara attained nirvana |
| Nirvicikitsa: | Freedom from disgust |
| Nirvrttindriya: | Physical sense-organ shaped like Kadamba flower |
| Niryukti: | Prakrit verse commentary |
| Nisarga: | inborn error |
| Nisarga Kriya: | Admiration of hurtful or unrighteous things. |
| Nisargaja: | Agrahita |
| Niscaya (Naya): | Consideration |
| Niscaya-naya: | Nonconventional view |
| Niscayabhasa: | False real point of view |
| Niscita (Matijnana): | Determined |
| Nisedha: | Negation |
| Nisedhakalpana: | Negative aspect |
| Nisedhasakhaka (Hetu): | Which proves negation |
| Nishkankshita: | Free from wordly desire. |
| Nisshankita: | Free from all doubt. |
| Nitya: | Eternal |
| Nityavada: | Eternalism |
| Niyati: | Fate |
| Niyativada: | Fatalism |
| No-kasaya: | Subsidiary passions |
| No-kashaya: | Quasi-passions; slight or minor passions. |
| Nyag rodha parimandala: | Banyan-like; short in lower but large in upper extremities like a banyan-tree. |