Philosophy In Jain Agams: Glossary[A]

Published: 20.08.2019
Updated: 23.08.2019
  • abhavya- not fit for emancipation
  • abheda- identical
  • ābhigrahika - mithyātva- deliberate perversity
  • abhinnadaśapūrvī- an ascetic, who has the knowledge of entire ten pūrvas
  • ābhogikadynamic energy
  • ābhyantaratapa internal psychic austerities comprising mainly of the inhibition of citta
  • ācāra- conduct
  • ācāravāda- believer in conduct as the utter necessity for liberation
  • ācārya- religious preceptor
  • acaurya- non-stealing
  • acitta- non-living
  • acittamahāskandha- the largest aggregate of ultimate atoms of the physical substance, which occupies the entire cosmic space and which consists of greatest number of paramāṇus and possessed of four fundamental touches.
  • adāna-nikṣepasamiti- comportment of using and laying of paraphernalia
  • adṛśya- invisible
  • addhā-kāla- empirical time calculated on the motion of solar motion
  • adharmāstikāya-medium of rest
  • adholoka- lower cosmos
  • adhyavasāya- a subtle level of consciousness
  • adhyayana-chapter
  • advaitavāda-monism
  • advaitavādī-non-dualistic
  • āgama- canonical texts
  • āgamagamya- object which is known through agama
  • aghati karma- non- destroying karma
  • agurulaghu- a generic quality of dravya, that which is responsible for the continued existence of substance
  • āhāra– food
  • āhāraka- the instant/s in transmigration where jīva is with sap
  • āhārakasarīra- communication body
  • ahimsā- non-violence
  • ajīva- non- soul
  • ajñāna-ignorance, the knowledge of jīva possessed of deluded world view, nescience
  • ajñānavāda-agnosticism
  • ajñānavādī-believers in uselessness of knowledge
  • ajñeyavāda- doctrine that upholds nothing is knowable
  • ākāsa- space
  • ākāśāstikāya- conglomeration of space units
  • akaṣāyī-passionless ascetic
  • akriyāvādi(non conformist) - a heretic philosopher, who does not accept the existence of soul
  • alocanā- confession
  • alpanirjarā- less elimination of karma
  • amūḍha-drṣṭi- undeluded faith
  • amūrta– incorporeal
  • ānābhigrahika- non-deliberate perversity
  • anābhogika- psychic kinetic energy
  • anācāra- gross transgression
  • anādī- beginningless
  • aṅga/aṅga-praviṣṭa- principle canonical texts
  • aṅga-bāhya/upāṅga–auxiliary canonical texts
  • anākāraupayoga- indeterminatecognitive activity
  • ananta- infinite, a mathematical number
  • anantānubandhī- passions which are the cause of endless transmigration
  • anarthadaṇḍa- the eighth vow of lay follower to abstain depraved acts
  • anaśana- fasting
  • anātmavādī- atheistic
  • anḍaja- born out of eggs
  • anekānta- non-absolutism
  • aneka siddha-emancipated along with others
  • anīndriya-mind, intuitive knowledge
  • anitya-non- eternal
  • anityatva-non-eternality
  • anivṛttibādara- similar coarse passions
  • aniyatavipākī- uncertain fruition of karma
  • aṇṇamaṇṇasiṇeha paḍibaddhā- the soul and physical matter coalesce with each other through sneha, which is mutual attraction between them
  • antāralagati-the motion of the jīva after death in the space from the place of death to the reincarnation
  • antarāya karma - obstructing karma
  • antar-muhūrta- the time period measured from two smallest time units i.e. one samaya less in fourty eight minutes
  • anubhaga- karmic bondage qua intensity
  • anudaya- dormant state of karma
  • anumāna- inference
  • anusancaraṇa/sancaraṇa-transmigration
  • anuṣṭhāna- spiritual activity
  • anuyoga- A system of exposition
  • anyaliṅga siddha - emancipated in an outfit of a heretic
  • aparatva- posteriority
  • aparigraha- non-possession
  • apariṇata- immobile beings which have not been turned lifeless
  • aparyāpta- un-developed, being without the completion of required bio potentials
  • apavartanā- attenuation
  • apkāya- water bodied being
  • apoha- elimination
  • apradeśa- unitless
  • apramāda- vigilance in self-restraint
  • aprāmāṇya- invalid
  • apramatta- spiritually vigilant
  • apramattasanyat- self restraint with freedom from remissness
  • apratyākhyānāvaraṇa- a subtype of conduct deluding karma, rise of which obstructs the partial abstinence
  • apṛthaktvānuyoga-the system of exposition of scriptural aphorisms, in which each sūtra is explained from the approach of naya
  • āptapuruṣa - enlightened beings
  • ārādhaka- punctilious (rightful) observer of spiritual path
  • ārādhanā- punctilious (rightful) observance of the spiritual path
  • ardhacakravāla- semi-circular series
  • arhats- enlightened beings
  • ārṣa vāṇī- preaching of enlightened ones
  • arthakriyā- the potency inherent in the substance for conducting any activity
  • arthataḥ- with meaning
  • asamanugñāta- unfit for study
  • asamjñī- living being devoid of mental faculty
  • asamkhyeya/asamkhyāta-innumerable - a kind of calculable number
  • asamprāpta/ayathākālaudaya- pre mature or preponedfruition
  • asamvṛta - non restraint person
  • asamvṛtaanagāra- non-self inhibited ascetic
  • asat- non-existent
  • aśrava- influx of karma
  • aśrutvākevalī-spontaneous omniscient (on account of intense purity of the soul)
  • aṣṭāṅga mārga- eightfold path to liberation
  • aṣṭasparśī- the material aggregate which is possessed of all the eight types of touch
  • aṣṭapravacana mātṛka- three inhibitions and five comportments together
  • āstika- theist
  • astikāya- homogenous continuum/extended existence
  • astitva- existence
  • astitva-mimānsā- critique of existentiality
  • aticāra-partial transgression
  • atīndriya- supra-sensory
  • atīrthankara siddha -emancipated as the non founder of the doctrine
  • atīrtha siddha - emancipated during the disappearance of doctrine
  • ātmā- soul
  • ātmādvaitavāda- non-duality of souls
  • ātmakaṛtva- self is the doer of good and bad karmas
  • ātmamīmāṃsā- critique of soul
  • ātmāvādī- Believers in the existence of soul, theists
  • ātyantika- absolutely
  • audārika- gross physical body
  • aupacārikadravya- metaphorical substance
  • aupādhikaguṇa - adjoined (not inherent) attribute
  • aupāpatika- beings with spontaneous birth
  • avadhijñāna- clairvoyance
  • avagāha- accommodation
  • avagāhana- body size
  • avakāśāntara- interval of space
  • āvalikā- micro unit of time measurement which consists of innumerable samayas
  • atyantābhāva-exclusively/potentially absent
  • āvasthā- state
  • āvestana- parivestana- covering and repeated covering of karmas
  • avinābhāvī- necessarily concomitant
  • avirati- non-abstinence
  • aviratisamyagdṛṣṭi - right belief attended with non-abstinence
  • ayogīkevalī- omniscience with total cessation of activities
  • āyuyakarma- life spandetermining karma
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. Agama
  2. Aghati
  3. Akriyāvādi
  4. Aneka
  5. Antarāya
  6. Antarāya Karma
  7. Anyaliṅga siddha
  8. Asamvṛta
  9. Atīrtha siddha
  10. Atīrthankara siddha
  11. Body
  12. Citta
  13. Clairvoyance
  14. Consciousness
  15. Dravya
  16. Fasting
  17. Jīva
  18. Karma
  19. Karmas
  20. Naya
  21. Non-absolutism
  22. Non-violence
  23. Omniscient
  24. Paramāṇus
  25. Samaya
  26. Samayas
  27. Siddha
  28. Soul
  29. Space
  30. Sūtra
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