GLOSSARY
Aacharang: Name of the first Jain Aagama
Aagama: Jain scripture
Aavashyak Sutra: Name of an auxiliary essential scripture
Aayu: Life span
Achakshudarshan: Perception beyond eyesight
Adharma: Absence of religion; One of the six basic substances
Adharmastikaya: One of the six basic substances
Age regression: Reverting to earlier behavior pattern
Aghatiya: Karma that does not hurt soul
Ajiva: Lifeless
Ajnan: Ignorance
Akam Nirjara: Unplanned dripping of Karma
Akash: Space
Akashastikaya: Space
Akendriya: One sensed bodies
Alokakash: Empty space
Anand: Bliss, pleasure
Anantanubandhi: Bondage of apparently endless duration
Anant Chatushthaya: Infinite knowledge, perception, action and vigor
Anashan: Not to eat
Anekanta Vad: Multiplicity of view points
Anga: Part; any of the first 12 Aagamas
Anivratti Badar: 9th stage of elevation
Antahkrit Kevali: One attaining omniscience and liberation simultaneously
Antaraya: Obstructing Karmas; obstruction
Anubhag: Intensity
Anubhav: Intensity
Anuvrata: Minor restraint
Apkaya: Hydraulic bodies
Apramatta Virat: Restraint without indolence; 7th stage of elevation
Apratyakhyanavaraniya: Defilements uncontrollable by vows
Apurvakaran: Unprecedented performance; 8th stage of
elevation
Arihant: One who has overcome internal enemies; Omniscient
Ashan: Eating
Ashatavedaniya: Situations bearable with pain
Ashrav: Inflow of Karma
Ashta Karma: Eight types of Karmas
Ashubha: Unwholesome
Asrav: Inflow of Karma
Astikaya: What occupies more than one Pradesh
Atma: Soul
Avadhidarshan: Limited extrasensory perception
Avadhijnana: Limited extrasensory knowledge
Aversion: Resentment
Avirat(i) Samyag: Right perception without restraint; 4th stage of elevation
Ayogi Kevali: Unembodied omniscient; 14th stage of elevation
Bandha: Bondage
Bhagavati Sutra: Name of an original Aagama
Bhogantaraya: Karma that obstructs utilization of consumables
Brahma: Soul
Buddhism: Religion of Lord Buddha
Chaitanya: Consciousness
Chaityavasi: Renegade monks who used to live in temples
Chakshudarshan: Perception with eyes
Charitra: Behavior; conduct; practice
Charitra Mohaniya: Karma causing deluded behavior
Chaturendriya: Four sensed beings
Chhakaya: Sixfold division of all beings
Chhed Sutra: Name given to a class of subsidiary Aagamas
Chidanand: Blissful consciousness
Chit: Consciousness
Craving: Longing
Danantaraya: Karma that obstructs charity
Darshan Mohaniya: Karma causing deluded perception
Dashavaikalik: Name of a prominent auxiliary Aagama
Defiling: One that spoils or pollutes
Desh Virati: Partly restrained; 5th stage of elevation
Dhammo: Religion
Dharma: Religion; one of the six basic substances
Dharmastikaya: One of the six basic substances
Digambar: Without clothes; name of a Jain sect
Discretion: Exercising wisdom
Drashta: Viewer
Dravya: Substance
Dravyarthic Naya: Substantial viewpoint
Dwadashangi: Collective term for 12 Angas
Dweendriya: Two sensed beings
Dwitiya: Second
Ekanta: Singular or one-sided view point
Embodiment: Having physical body
Ephemeral: Temporary; transitory
Equanimity: Perfect balance of mind
Eternal: Everlasting
Ganadhar: Principal disciple of Tirthankara
Gati: State of (Divine,human, animal or infernal) existence
Geeta: Name of the Hindu scripture
Ghatiya: Karma that hurts nature of soul
Gotra: Type of family
Guna: Characteristic; property
Gunasthanak: Stage of elevation
Gunavrat: Helpful restraint
Heya: What is to be avoided
Infernal: Pertaining to hell
Ishwar: Endowed with esteemable attributes
Jada: Lifeless
Jainism: Religion propounded by omniscients
Jiva: Living being; soul
Jivastikaya: Soul
Jnana: Knowledge; enlightenment
Jnanavaraniya: Knowledge obscuring Karma
Jnata: One who knows
Jneya: What is to be known
Kaal: Time
Karma: Impact of one’s action on Self
Karmabandha: Bondage of Karma
Karmayoga: Dispassionate activity
Kashaya: Defilement
Keval Darshan: Omniperception
Keval Jnana: Omniscience
Knowability: Capacity to know
Kshamashraman: Forgiving saint
Koham: Who am I?
Krodh: Anger; enragement
Kshina Moha: Devoid of delusion; 12th stage of elevation
Labhantaraya: Karma that obstructs gain
Layman: House holder
Liberation: Ultimate salvation
Lokakash: Space that accommodates six Dravyas
Lobha: Greediness, covetousness
Maan: Ego; arrogance; vanity
Magadha: Present State of Bihar and adjoining territory
Mahabharat: Name of ancient Indian epic
Manahparyav Jnana: Capacity to read mind
Manahparyay Jnana: Capacity to read mind
Mati Jnana: Intellectual knowledge; intelligence
Maya: Deception; attachment
Mirage: Illusion of water
Mishra: Right and wrong perception mixed; 3rd stage of elevation
Mithyatva: Wrong perception and belief; 1st stage of elevation
Mohaniya: Delusive
Moksha: Liberation; salvation
Mokshamarg: Path of liberation
Muhurta: 48 minutes
Mukti: Liberation; emancipation
Mul Sutra: Name given to a class of auxiliary scriptures
Naam Karma: Physique determining Karma
Nav Tattva: Nine fundamentals
Naya: View point
Neti: Not this, not that etc.
Nikachit: Indelible
Nirjara: Shaking off or dripping of Karmas
Nishkam: Desireless
Omnipercipient: One who can perceive everything
Omnipotent: All powerful
Omniscience: Knowledge of every thing
Omniscient: One who knows every thing; Kevali
Operative: In force
Paap: Sin
Panchachar Sutra: Text dealing with fivefold code
Panchendriya: Five sensed beings
Pandavas: Sons of Pandu; five main characters of Mahabharat
Paapanubandhi Paap: Unwholesome Karmas leading to new unwholesome Karmas
Paapanubandhi Punya: Wholesome karmas leading to unwholesome ones
Paramanu: Infinitesimally minute particles of Pudgal
Paramatma: Supreme entity
Parochialism: Narrowness of mind or thought
Parshwa tradition: Tradition of Lord Parshwanath
Paryaya: Changing states
Paryayarthic Naya: View point that considers changing states
Paushadha: Practising the life of a monk
Phobia: Irrational persisting fear
Pradesh: Infinitesimal area
Prakriti: Type
Prarabdha: Destiny determined by previous Karma
Pramad: Indolence; care free attitude
Pramatta Virati: Restraint subject to indolence
Pratham: First
Pratykhyanavaraniya: What can be avoided by taking vows
Prithwikaya: Earth bodies
Pudgal: Lifeless matter with form etc.
Pudgalastikaya: Lifeless matter with form etc.
Punya: Meritorious activity
Punyanubandhi Paap: Unwholesome Karma motivating wholesome ones
Punyanubandhi Punya: Wholesome Karma motivating wholesome ones
Purush: Embodied person or entity
Purusharth: Hard endeavor
Reincarnation: Rebirth
Ruchak Pradesh: Region of soul not subject to bondage
Sagaropam: Comparable to ocean, inconceivably long period
Sahajanand: Bliss at ease
Sahavo: Nature; property
Sakam Nirjara: Planned eradication of Karma
Salvation: Liberation
Samaya: Infinitesimal part of a second
Samayasar: Name of a well known book by Kundkundacharya
Samvar: Prevention
Samavayang: Name of an original Aagama
Samyag Darshan: Right perception
Samyag Jnana: Right knowledge; enlightenment
Samyak Charitra: Right action or behavior
Samyaktrayi: Right perception, knowledge and action
Samyaktva: Right conviction
Sanchit Karma: Accumulated Karma
Sangha: Religious order
Sanjwalan: Very subtle
Sankhya: Religious philosophy believing in immutable soul
Sarvadarshi: Omnipercipient
Sarvajna: Omniscient
Sarva Virati: Fully restrained; 6th stage of elevation
Saswadan: Having taste of previous experience; 2nd stage of elevation
Sat: That which exists forever
Sayogi Kevali: Embodied omniscient; 13th stage of elevation
Sensuous: Pertaining to senses
Shad Darshan: Six schools of thought
Shad Dravya: Six basic substances
Shat(d): Six
Shatavedaniya: Pleasurable situations
Shikshavrat: Disciplinary restraint
Shraman: Jain or Buddhist monk
Shrut Kevali: Knowing all scriptures
Shrut Jnana: Religious books; knowledge gained by studying
Shrut Skandha: Collection of scriptures
Shubha: Wholesome
Shwetambar: Whiteclad; name of a Jain sect
Siddha: Liberated
Siddhashila: Abode of liberated ones
Skandha: Combination of Paramanus
Soham: I am the soul
Sthanakwasi: Non-idolator Jain sect
Sthavar: Immobile beings
Sthiti: Duration of bondage
Sukshma: Subtle
Sukshma Samparay: Very subtle Kashaya; 10th stage of elevation
Sutra Kritang: Name of an original Aagama
Syat: May be possible
Tapa: Austerity
Tapachar: Code of austerity
Tattva: Fundamental
Tattvartha Sutra: Name of a book acceptable to all Jains
Terapanth: Name of a Sthanakwasi sect
Teukaya: Light bodies
Trasa: Mobile beings
Treendriya: Three sensed beings
Uday Karma: Operative Karma
Udirana: Curtailing the duration of Karma
Undefiled: Pure
Unembodied: Bodiless soul
Upabhogantaraya: Karma obstructing use of non-consumables
Upadeya: Adoptable
Upasham: Pacification
Upasham Shreni: Line of pacification
Upashant Moha: Pacified delusion; 11th stage of elevation
Upayog: Attentiveness; vigilance; awareness
Uttaradhyayan Name of a prominent Aagama
Vachana: Reediting of Aagamas at religious convention
Vad: Ism; school of thought
Vaidic: Pertaining to Vedas
Vanaspatikaya: Plant bodies
Vartaman Karma: Present Karma
Vatthu: Any thing
Vaukaya: Gaseous bodies
Vedaniya: What has to be undergone
Vedant: Scriptures based on Vedas
Vipak: Maturity
Viryantaraya: Karma that obstructs vigor
Vrata: restraint
Yati: Renegade monk
Yog: Coming together