Philosophy In Jain Agams: Glossary[I-M]

Published: 20.08.2019
Updated: 23.08.2019

  • icchā-parimāṇa- voluntary restriction upon the desire for possessions
  • īhā- speculation, second step of perception
  • ihaloka- this world
  • indriyapratyakṣa - direct sensory perception
  • īryāpathikībandha- bondage of karma exclusively due to yoga free from passions
  • īryāpathikīkriya– instantaneousactivity free from passions
  • iryāsamiti- comportment of careful movement
  • iṣatprāgbhāra- slightly concave land
  • īśvaravāda- Belief system upholding īśvara(God) as the creator and controller of universe
  • jarāyuja- born out of foetus with amnion (or the chorion, an enveloping membrane)
  • jijīviṣā- longing for survival
  • jīva- living being
  • jīvāstikāya- conglomeration of living beings
  • jñāna- knowledge
  • jñānacāra- conduct qua knowledge
  • jñānamīmānsā- epistemology
  • jñānamoha– delusion qua knowledge
  • jñānavadī- believer in knowledge as the utter necessity for liberation
  • jñānavaranīya- knowledge obscurant karma
  • jñeya- knowable
  • jugupsā- a type of no-kasāya, which engenders disgust towards a person or a thing
  • kāla- time
  • kālikaśruta- the scripture that is to be studied only in the prescribed time
  • kalyānaphalavipāka- auspicious results of karma
  • kānkṣāmohanīya- (a) view deluding inclination i.e. a mental state of suspicious desire as to whether I should accept this view or reject.
  • karaṇānuyoga-   a   kind ofdravyānuyoga, (ontological exposition) with respect to the essential means that contribute to the transformation of a substance resulting in the creation of its state
  • kārmaṇavargaṇā - a group of atomic particles fit for getting transformed into karma
  • karmaprakṛti- type of karma, specific nature and variety of karma
  • karmavāda- doctrine of karma
  • karmodaya- fruition of karma
  • kāyagupti- self-control of physical activities
  • kāyakleśa- a type of external austerity
  • kāyakleśa- a type of external austerity
  • kāyasthiti - the period of continuation of stay of a jīva in the same form of life in spite of undergoing the birth and death
  • kāyayoga- physical activity of soul
  • kevalī/kevalajñānī- omniscients
  • kriyā- action
  • kriyāvāda(conformist) - the traditions which believe in the real existense of substances like soul etc.
  • kṛṣṇarājī- macro-cosmological structures in the form of black streaks in the space formed by the density of earth bodied being and earth-bodied material aggregates
  • kṣaya- elimination of karma
  • kṣayikasamyaktva- a type of samyaktva attained through the total destruction of karma responsible for prevention of samyaktva
  • kṣetra- a part of the cosmic space which is contained by a substance
  • kṣīṇamoha- extirpation of delusion
  • kuṭasthanitya- absolutely eternal
  • laghu- light
  • lakṣana- distinguishing character
  • leśyā- psychic color
  • loka- cosmos
  • lokānta- upper most end of the universe
  • loka-parimāṇa- cosmos-pervasive
  • lokeṣaṇā- worldly praise
  • madhyaloka- middle cosmos
  • mahānirjarā- massive elimination of karma
  • mahāvrata- five great vows
  • manahparyavajñānī- mind-readers
  • manogupti- self control of mind
  • manusyagati- birth in human realm
  • manuṣyaksetra- the region of the cosmos where human inhabitate, a region of two and half continents and two oceans
  • mārgaṇā- investigation
  • matijñāna- perceptual cognition
  • matṛkapada- three maternal statements
  • miśra dṛṣṭi - right-cum-perverted belief
  • miśrapariṇamana- creation by both
  • miśrapariṇati- transformation through both natural and conscious exertion
  • mitātmavāda- doctrine that believes in limited number of souls
  • mithyādarśanaśalya- impurity or sin caused by perverted world view
  • mithyādṛṣṭi- impurity of soul caused by perverted world view
  • mohanīya karma- deludedkarma
  • mokṣa- liberation
  • mūḍhadṛṣti- deluded vision
  • mūrchā- attachment, delusion
  • mūrta- corporeal substances
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. Dṛṣṭi
  2. Indriyapratyakṣa
  3. Jīva
  4. Karma
  5. Kriyāvāda
  6. Kāyasthiti
  7. Miśra dṛṣṭi
  8. Mohanīya
  9. Omniscients
  10. Samyaktva
  11. Soul
  12. Space
  13. Yoga
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