| WORD | MEANING |
| Sarana: | Refuge |
| Sarira | Body |
| Sarva-virata: | Attainment of sarva-virati; the sixth gunasthana |
| Sarva-virati: | Total restraint of a mendicant |
| Sarvajna: | An omniscient being; a synonym for kevalin |
| Sasana-devata: | Guardian spirits |
| Sastra: | Scripture |
| Sasvadana: | State of "mixed taste"; the second gunasthana |
| Sat: | Being |
| Sat-jiva-nikaya: | The six kinds of living beings, namely, the five ekendriyas and the trasa |
| Sata-vedaniya: | Pleasure-feeling; that which brings pleasure. |
| Sata-vendaniya: | Pleasure-bearing feeling karmic matter |
| Sata, Satavedaniya: | Experience of pleasure |
| Satpratipaksa: | Inconclusive reason |
| Satrsanac: | Continuous participles |
| Sattadvaita: | Non-duality of the existence |
| Sattveshu: | Living beings. |
| Satya: | Truth |
| Satya mana: | True mind |
| Satya-vachana: | Truthfull speech |
| Satya-Vrata: | The vow to abstain from lying |
| Savicara: | Accompanied by applied thinking |
| Savipaka: | The ripening of fruit by itself. |
| Savipaka-nirjara: | The natural maturing of a karma and its separation from the soul. |
| Sayoga-kevalin: | A kevalin still possessed of the activities of body, speech, and mind; the thirteenth gunasthana |
| Shaktitas-tapa: | The practice of austerities, according to one's capacity. |
| Shaktitas-tyaga: | Giving to others, gift of knowledge, food, medicine, etc., according to one's capacity. |
| Shalya: | A thorn; a blemish. |
| Sharira: | The body. |
| Shaucha: | contentmant |
| Shiksha-vratas: | Four vows relating to meditation in the morning, noon, and evening, to keeping fast on certain days, and to his duty of daily giving charity in the form of knowledge, medicine, comfort, and food. |
| Shila: | Restrictions |
| Shila vrateshvanatichara: | Faultless observance of the Five Vows, and faultless subdual of the passions. Shita``Cold. |
| Shoka: | Sorrow |
| Shruta: | Scriptures |
| Shruta-jnanavarana: | Scriptural-knowledge-obscuring. |
| Shubha: | Beautiful (body). |
| Graceful. | |
| Shukla: | White. |
| Siddha: | A liberated soul; a kevalin freed from all activities whatsoever |
| Liberated soul | |
| Proved | |
| The Realised Soul. | |
| Siddha sadhana: | The means to prove |
| Siddha-gati: | The destiny of the siddha |
| Siddha-loka: | The permanent abode of the siddha; a synonym for isat-pragbhara-bhumi |
| Siddhanta: | Doctrine |
| Siddhi: | Yogic power |
| Siksavratas: | Vows of spiritual descipline |
| Sila: | Conduct |
| Silpa: | Handcrafts |
| Skandha: | Aggregate |
| Smarana: | Recollection |
| Smrta: | Remembered |
| Smrti: | Memory |
| Smrti-jnanavarana: | Knowledge-obscuring karman of memory |
| Snapana: | The ceremony of sprinkling or bathing the Jina-image |
| Snigdha: | Smooth. |
| Snigdha-ruksatva: | Moisture and dryness (of atoms) |
| Soka: | Sorrow |
| Sparsa: | Touch |
| Sparsha: | Touch |
| Sparshana-kriya: | Frivolous indulgence in touching. |
| Spasta: | Obvious |
| Spastata: | Clarity |
| Sraddha: | Faith |
| Offering of food to the Manes | |
| Sramana: | A non-Vedic mendicant, usually a Jaina or a Buddhist |
| Sramanabhuta: | A novice about to become a mendicant |
| Sramanopasaka: | A disciple of the ascetics; a synonym for sravaka |
| Sravaka: | A layman; a synonym for upasaka and sramanopasaka |
| Sravaka-pratima: | The eleven stages of the path of the layman; a synonym for upasaka-pratima |
| Sravakacara: | Book of the layman's discipline |
| Sreni | Ladder: |
| Srotra: | Ear |
| Sruta: | Scriptural (cognition) |
| The oral tradition of Jaina scripture | |
| Sruta-pancami: | The "scripture-fifth," a Jaina holiday |
| Srutajnana: | Knowledge derived from instruction and reasoning |
| Srutanusarana: | Basing on word |
| Srutanusarin: | Based on word |
| Srutanusaritva: | Based on word |
| Srutopayoga: | Conscious activity towards verbal thinking |
| Stava: | Hymn of praise |
| Steya: | Theft. |
| Sthana: | Situation. |
| Sthanakavasi: | Dwellers in halls; name of a Jaina sect whose members do not worship in temples |
| Sthapana: | Replacement |
| Sthapana: | Ritual act of asking a monk to stop for alms |
| Sthapanacarya: | Sacred objects used as a substitute for a teacher |
| Sthapanajina: | Symbol of Jina |
| Sthapanajiva: | Image symbol of soul |
| Sthapanendra: | Symbol of Indra |
| Sthavara: | Immobile beings, such as plants Immobile, with bodies having one sense only, i.e., the sense of touch. |
| Sthavira: | Elder |
| Elder (of the monastaries) | |
| Sthavirakalpin: | A monk who lives in an ecclesiastical community |
| Sthira: | Steady (circulation of blood, bile, etc.). |
| Sthitapaksatva: | Real doctrine |
| Sthiti: | Duration |
| Sthiti karana: | To help oneself or others to remain steady in the path of truth. |
| Sthtikarana: | Acting to promote the stability of another's faith in the Jaina path |
| Stotra: | A philosophical hymn |
| Stri-Katha: | Women |
| Strimukti: | Attainment of moksa in a female incarnation |
| Striraga-katha-shravana tyaga: | Renouncing of(reading or) hearing stories exciting attachment for women |
| Striveda: | Feminine inclination. |
| Sexual cravings for a male | |
| Stupa: | Reliquary mound |
| Styanagriddhi: | Somnambulism. |
| Styanarddhi-nidra: | Somnambulism |
| Subhaga: | Amiable; amaiable personality, even though not beautiful. |
| Suddha dravya: | Pure existence of the substance |
| Suddhi: | Purity |
| Sudra: | A member of the fourth caste |
| Sugamdha: | Sweet-smelling; fragrant. |
| Sukha: | Bliss |
| Sukha-vedana: | Feeling of happiness |
| Sukla: | White |
| Sukla-lesya: | Luminous white karmic stain |
| Sukshma: | Fine (body) uncuttable and all-pervasive. |
| Sukshma Nigoda-Vargana: | Fine-common-body-molecule |
| Suksma-samparaya: | The state of having only the subtle passions; the tenth gunasthana |
| Suksmakriya-anivartin: | The state of subtle movement |
| Sunyagara: | Residence in a solitary place, like a mountain or cave, etc. |
| Susama: | Happy |
| Susama-dusama: | More happy than unhappy |
| Susama-susama: | Extremely happy |
| Susvara: | Sweet-voiced, musical. |
| Sutra | Style: |
| Aphoristic mode of presentation; the canonical scriptures | |
| Suya-nana: | Scriptural knowledge |
| Sva sharira sanskara-tyaga: | Renouncing of beautifying one's own body; self-adornment. |
| Sva-dravya: | Specific being, location, time, and state, respectively of oneself |
| Sva-para-vyavasayin: | Definiitive cognition of the self and others |
| Sva-samviditva: | Self-illuminating |
| Svabhava: | Own nature |
| Svabhava-parinama: | Undefiled change |
| Svabhava-sthita: | Established in one's own nature |
| Svabhava-viruddha: | Contradiction in nature |
| Svabhavanupalabdhi: | Non-availability of the nature |
| Svadeha-parimana: | The physical dimensions of the soul identical to those of its current body |
| Svadhyaya: | Study--internal austerity. |
| The study of the scriptures | |
| Svahasta-kriya: | undertaking to do by one's own hand, what should be done by others. |
| Svamitva: | The knower |
| Svanuraktatvakarana: | Sustaining object in its own form |
| Svapaka: | The lowest class in Indian society |
| Svartha (anumana): | For oneself (inference) |
| Svartha-vyavasiti: | Definite cognition of the self |
| Svarupa: | Form |
| Svarupa-pratiti: | Indetermination of knowledge |
| Svarupa-prayuktavyabhicara: | Characterised by the innate nature of the object |
| Svarupa-visesana: | Indication of nature |
| Svasamaya: | One's own doctrine |
| Svastika: | Well-being; the stylized wheel of life |
| Svati: | Tapering; |
| like a snake-hole, broad in lower but short in the upper extremities, reverse of Nyag rodha parimandala. | |
| Svetambara: | White [cotton]-clad; name of Jaina sect whose mendicants wear white garments |
| Svetapata: | A synonym for Svetambara |
| Syadvada: | The doctrine of qualified assertion |
| Syat: | From a particular point of view |
| In some respect | |
| Syatkara: | Marked by syat |
| Sykladhyana: | Pure concentration |