Philosophy In Jain Agams: Glossary[S-V]

Published: 20.08.2019
Updated: 23.08.2019

  • śabdanaya- the verbalistic approach
  • sacittamahāskandha- the gigantic aggregate of the karma particles, which is possessed of, by the soul of omniscient being
  • saddravya- six substances
  • ṣāḍhārmika- co-religionist
  • sādhanā- spiritual practices
  • sādhāraṇajīva- the infinite number of souls present in a single body
  • sādhana- proban, middle term
  • sādhya- probandum
  • sādi- with beginning
  • ṣaḍjivanikāya- six categories of living beings
  • sadṛśabandha- homogenous bondage
  • sahāvasthāna- simultaneous co-existense
  • śaileśīavasthā- state of complete inhibition of the activities of mind, speech and body
  • sākāraupayoga- determinate cognitive activity
  • śalya- that emotion which acts as a weapon in the interior
  • śama- serenity, a characteristic of right faith
  • samabhirūdhanaya- etymological non-absolutic view point
  • samādhi- concentration of mind
  • samaguṇa bondage - equal-point bondage.
  • sāmānyaguṇa - generic quality
  • samaṣṭi- universalistic aspect
  • samatā- equanimity
  • samavasaraṇa- the place where tirthankara delivers his sermons, conference of diverse schools of philosophy or world views
  • samvara- inhibition of karma
  • saṃaya- single time unit
  • samāyākṣetra- wherethe time is measured on the basis of the motion of the sun and the moon
  • sāmāyika- preliminary initiation
  • samjña– instinct
  • samlekhanā- scraping penance- a course of penance undertaken for emaciating the body and passions
  • sammurcchanaja- born of coagulation (invertebrate)
  • sāmparāyikabandha - bondage of karma due to activity with passions
  • sāmparāyikakriyā- activity with passions
  • samprāptiudaya- scheduled fruition of karma
  • sāsvādanasamyag dṛṣṭi - lingering relish of right belief while falling from higher spiritual stage to the lowest
  • sāsvādanasamyag dṛṣṭi - the second stage of spiritual development
  • samuddeśaka- sub-section
  • samudghāta- expansion of soul units outside the body
  • samvṛtaanagāra- that ascetic who is equipped with the inhibition of mind, speech and body
  • samyag cāritra- right conduct
  • samyagdarśana- enlightened world view, right faith
  • samyak-mithyā dṛṣṭi - the third stage of spiritual development, a mixture of both right and perversed faith
  • saṅghāta- integration
  • saṅgrahanaya- collective view point
  • sanhanana- bone structure
  • sañjvalanakaṣāya- flaming up passions, a sub-type of conductdeluding rise of which obstructs the vitaragata
  • sankhyāsthāna- difference in numbers
  • sankramaṇa- transference
  • sansthāna- configuration, shape of the body
  • sanyam- self restraint
  • sapradeśa- with unit
  • saptabhaṅgī- seven types of expression which categorically use the term syat (in some respect)
  • sarāgasanyama- conduct of the ascetic who has passions
  • sarvavyāpaka- all pervasive
  • śata/śataka- chapter, in the context of bhagavati
  • satkāryavāda- doctrine that upholds that effect exists in cause
  • ṣaṭsthānapatita- six mathematical measurements which indicate relatively less or more strength of number.
  • sattā- existense
  • sattā- period of dormancy of karma
  • sattvaguṇa- one of the quality of primordial element represents transparency
  • satya- truth
  • sayogikevalī- omniscience with activity
  • shrāvikā- female layfollower
  • siddha- liberated soul
  • siṇeha- power of attraction between the matter and soul
  • śīrsaprahelikā- the largest number that has 194 digits
  • skandha- aggregate of units
  • snigdha- a kind of touch, positive electrical energy of the ultimate atom
  • śoka- sorrow
  • sopādhika– defiled
  • spardhaka- a sub-division of class of material cluster
  • sparśa- touch
  • śparsanendriya- tactile sense organ
  • śravakācāra- conduct of a laymen
  • śreṇī- row of the space units
  • śrotendriya- auditory sense organ
  • sṛṣtividyā- science of universe
  • śruta- verbal knowledge
  • śrutajñāna- articulate or verbal knowledge
  • śrutakevalī- one who has fathomed the entire lore of the scriptural knowledge
  • śrutapuruṣa-metaphoricalcanonical man
  • śrutaskandha– border section of the text
  • sthānāyatika- yogic postures
  • sthāvara- immobile beings
  • sthirīkaraṇa- stabilization
  • sthitibandha- duration of karmic bondage
  • strīliṅga siddha -emancipated in the state of a woman
  • śubhaprakṛti- auspicious type of karma
  • śubha yoga - auspicious activity of mind, speech and body
  • śuddhātma- pure soul
  • sūkṣmasamparāya- subtle passion
  • sūkṣma- subtle
  • sūtra- verses/text
  • svabhāva- nature
  • svabhāvaparyāya- intrinsic mode
  • svādhyāya- scriptural study
  • svakāyaśastra- homogenous weapons
  • svaliṅga siddha- emancipatedorthodox outfit
  • svasamaya- doctrines of the own tradition, Jain doctrines
  • sva-smṛti- that power of recollection through which one remembers one's previous birth
  • svātaḥ pramāṇa - self-valid
  • svayambuddhasiddha- self enlightened liberated souls
  • svedaja- born out of sweat
  • syādvāda- conditional dialectics
  • syāt- in some respect or in particular context
  • taijasaśarīra- luminous body
  • tamaskāya- a mass of darkness (the form of cosmological structure of very great size) formed by the natural transformation of water bodied beings and material clusters
  • tanuvāta- thin air in Jain cosmography, which is liquefied and supported by space
  • tapācāra- conduct qua penance
  • tapa- penance
  • tattva- truth, reality
  • tattvamīmānsā- critique of metaphysics
  • tejaskāya- fire bodied beings
  • tīkā- elaborate commentary on āgamas
  • tīrtha- ford
  • tīrthaṅkaras- ford founders
  • tīrthankarasiddha- emancipated as the founder of the doctrine
  • tīrthasiddha- emancipated during the dominance of doctrine
  • tiryagpracay- horizontal expansion
  • tiryañcagati- birth in sub-human realm
  • trasa- mobile being
  • trasanāḍī- cylindrical part of the cosmic space located at the centre and is of one rajju in length and breadth and little less than 14rajju in height
  • trigupti- three kinds of self control
  • trīndriya- three sensed living being
  • tripadī- the triplet of origination, cessation and persistence
  • udaya- realization of the rise of karma
  • udbhija- born by sprouting from the earth
  • uddeśaka- section
  • udīraṇā- pre-mature realization of karma
  • udvartanā- augmentation
  • unodarī- semi-fasting i.e. reduction of food
  • upādhyāya- ascetic who has insight in the sūtra
  • upāsakā/śramaṇopāsaka/śrāvaka-male lay follower of śramana Jain tradition
  • upapātaja- A type of birth of where jīva is born spontaneously as a Deva (celestial being) or Nāraka (infernal being)
  • upaśamana- subsidence
  • upaśāntamoha- subsidence of delusion
  • upavrinhana- strengthening of the faith
  • upayoga- cognitive activity
  • urdhvaloka- upper cosmos
  • urdhvapracaya- vertical expansion
  • utpāda (uppaṇei) - origination
  • utsargasamiti- comportment of disposal of excreta
  • uttarapakṣa - (own doctrine)
  • vācanā- councils
  • vacanagupti- self-control of speech
  • vaikriyaśarīra- protean body
  • vaiyāvṛtya- service
  • vanaspatikāya- vegetation bodied beings
  • varṇa- color
  • vargaṇā- cluster of atomic particles with similar nature
  • vartanā- duration or existence of the substance which depends on time
  • vastuvāda- realism
  • vātsalya- regard
  • vāyukāya- air bodied beings
  • veda- sensuality (sexual desire)
  • vedanā- experience of pain
  • vedanīyakarma- feeling determining karma
  • viṣamaguṇabandha- unequal bondage of karma in respect of space units
  • vigrahagati- the motion of the jīva after death, in the space with turns when the place of rebirth is not in the same row of the space units
  • vikalendriya- the mobile beings possessing two, three and four senses
  • vikathā- idle talks or gossiping
  • vikṛti- product
  • vikṣepaṇīkathā- a type of tale through which the doctrines of Jainism are established
  • vimātrarukṣatā- dissimilar proportion of dryness
  • vimātrasnigdha- ruksatā-dissimilar in both viscosity and dryness
  • vimātrasnigdhatā- dissimilar viscosity
  • vinaya- reverence / modest behaviour
  • vinayavāda- believers in modesty
  • vipākodaya- rise qua fruition, soul realizes the fruition of karma
  • viparyaya- misapprehension
  • virādhanā- to make a breach of the spiritual practice
  • viratāvirata- restrained-cum-unrestrained
  • virodhi- contradictory
  • vṛtti- commentary
  • vṛtti sankṣepa- conditional acceptance of food etc. in conformity with the canonical instruction
  • vīryācāra- conduct qua energy, proper exertion of energy for the purpose of gaining knowledge etc.
  • visadṛṣabandha- hetegenous bondage
  • viseṣa- particular attribute
  • visrasābandha- natural structure of the integration of the indivisible unit of the substance
  • visrasāpariṇati- natural transformation
  • visrasāsrṣṭi - natural creation
  • viśreṇi- the row of space units which is not parallel to the main direction namely east etc.
  • vīryāntarāya- a subtype of obstructing karmas
  • vīrya- that power which is produced from the body
  • vītarāga- that ascetic, whose attachment and aversion have been completely subsdued or annihilated
  • vitarāgatā- equanimity and conquer over attachment
  • vivekapratimā- the pratimā that results in the knowledge of separation of the soul and physical substance
  • vyañjanaparyāya- explicit mode
  • vyaṣṭi- individualistic
  • vyavahāranaya- analytic view point, empirical viewpoint
  • vyāvahārikakāla- empirical time in the form of day and night etc. in samāyaksetra
  • vyaya- cessation
  • vyutsarga - abandonment of body and outfit by giving up attachment to them
Sources
Title: Philosophy In Jain Agam
Author: Samani Mangal Pragya
Traslation In English By: Sadhvi Rajul Prabha
Publisher: Adarsh Sahitya Sangh
Edition:
2017
Digital Publishing:
Amit Kumar Jain


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  1. Body
  2. Concentration
  3. Deva
  4. Dṛṣṭi
  5. Equanimity
  6. Jainism
  7. Jīva
  8. Karma
  9. Karmas
  10. Omniscient
  11. Pramāṇa
  12. Pratimā
  13. Protean Body
  14. Rajju
  15. Samaguṇa bondage
  16. Samyak-mithyā dṛṣṭi
  17. Science
  18. Siddha
  19. Soul
  20. Space
  21. Strīliṅga siddha
  22. Svātaḥ pramāṇa
  23. Syat
  24. Sūtra
  25. Tirthankara
  26. Utpāda
  27. Vitaragata
  28. Vyutsarga
  29. Vṛtti
  30. Yoga
  31. Āgamas
  32. Śubha yoga
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