Philosophy In Jain Agams: Glossary[N-R]

Published: 20.08.2019
Updated: 23.08.2019

  • nāmakarma- physique determining karma
  • nanātamvādī - believer of poly- souls
  • napunsakaliṅgasiddha-emancipated in the outfit of an artificial eunuch
  • narakgati- birth in infernal realm
  • nāstika- atheism
  • nāstitva- non-existence
  • naya-non-absolutic view point
  • niddhatti- incapacitation of all these processes with exception of augmentation and attenuation
  • nihnava- apostasy from Jain doctrines
  • nihśankitā- absence of scepsis
  • nikācanā- incapacitation of all these processes of Karma states
  • nikāya- class of living beings
  • nimittaśāstra- science of prognosticationnirīndhanatā- absence of fuel (causes)
  • nirjarā- state of shedding off the karma
  • nirvāṇa- salvation
  • nirvicikitsā- absence of doubt
  • niryūhaṇa- drawn out of pūrvas
  • niryukti- oldest scholion on canonical work
  • niṣadyā- enquiry with modesty
  • niścayakāla- transcendental time
  • niścayanaya- metempirical stand point.
  • niṣkānkṣita- absense of perverse proclivity
  • nissaṅgatā- complete detachment
  • nityatva- eternality
  • nivrtti- abstinence, state of inaction
  • nivṛttibādarapassions
  • niyatavipākī– certain fruition ofkarma
  • niyati- destiny
  • no-karma - the state of the material cluster qua karma which ensue when the rise is over
  • padas- words
  • pañcasamavāya- five factors
  • pañcasamiti- five types of comportments
  • pañcāstikāya- the five ultimate existents
  • pañcendriya- five sensed living being
  • pāṇḍulipi- manuscript
  • parakāyaśastra- heterogenous weapons
  • paramāṇu-doctrines of other than Jains
  • paratva- priority
  • pariṇāma- to undergo transformation from one state to another one, nature or characteristic of fundamental substance
  • pariṇāmīnitya- persistence through-change
  • pariṇāmapratyayika -transformation in other forms
  • pariṇata-  the immobile beings which have been deprived of soul through weapons of one's own kind or of alien kind
  • parokṣapramāṇa - indirect valid cognition
  • paryāpta- developed, being with the completion of required bio­potentials
  • paryapti- bio-potentials
  • paryāyārthikanaya- standpoint qua mode
  • potaja- born out of foetus (born complete)
  • pourvāparya- prior and posterior
  • prabhāvanā- exaltation
  • pradeśa- indivisible and undetached part of substance, points of space, mass of karmic matter
  • pradeśodaya- innocuous realization of karmic matter
  • prakṛti-primordial element / material force, type/nature of karma
  • pramāda- remissness
  • pramāna- valid cognition
  • pramāṇamimānsā- critique of valid cognition
  • pramāṇasamplava- the object known through one pramāna can be known through other pramānas also.
  • pramāṇavyavasthā- every pramāna has their own independent object of cognition
  • pramattasanyata- self restraint unexempted with remissness
  • prāmāṇya- valid
  • prameya- object of knowledge
  • pratimā- intensive course of spiritual practices
  • pratisanlīnatā- seclusion
  • pratyākhyāna - abstinence, resolves to abstain from (evil) act
  • pratyākhyānāvaraṇa- a sub type of conduct deluding, rise of which obstructs the total abstinence
  • pratyayavādī- idealist
  • pratyekabuddha- isolately enlightened
  • pratyekabuddha siddha - liberated soul which has enlightened isolately
  • pratyekaśarīri- individually separate body for each soul
  • pravrajyā/diksā- initiation
  • pratyakṣapramāṇa - immediate valid cognition
  • pravṛtti- non abstinence, activity
  • prāyaścitta- atonement
  • prayoga- creation by conscious exertion
  • prayogapariṇati- transformation through conscious exertion
  • prāyogika sṛṣti- creation with conscious exertion
  • prāyopāgamana- the third and highest type of fasting unto death
  • pudgala- physical substance
  • pudgalaparivarta- a macro time unit, a time which lapses in a complete cycle of appropriation of all pudgalas
  • pudgalāstikāya- material aggregate
  • punarjanma- rebirth
  • puṇya- bondage of auspicious karmas
  • puruṣaliṅga siddha -emancipated in the outfit of a man
  • puruṣārtha- human efforts
  • pūrva- prior' or 'before', compiled prior to the compilation of dvādaśāṅgī, canonical text of earlier lore
  • pūrvapakṣa - opponents doctrines
  • pūrvaprayoga- antecedent impetus
  • pṛthaktvānuyoga- the anuyoga, according to which the classification of dravyānuyoga etc. is made; in which it is not compulsory to explain according to the naya system
  • pṛthvīkāya- earth bodied beings
  • rasaja- born out of fluids
  • rasanendriya- gustatory sense organ
  • rasaparityāga- abstinence from the delicacies
  • ratnatrayī- concept of three jewels viz. right knowledge, right faith, right conduct
  • rijuāyatā- straight series in space (b) a kind of epistemological error of knowledge (Jñānamoha)
  • ṛjuayataśreni - row of space units through which the motion of soul and physical objects takes place
  • ṛjusūtranaya- straight and direct approach, which cognizes the actually present mode
  • rucakapradeśa- central space units of the cosmos
  • rukṣa- a kind of touch, the quality of dryness, the negative electrical energy of the ultimate atom

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. Anuyoga
  2. Body
  3. Dravyānuyoga
  4. Dvādaśāṅgī
  5. Fasting
  6. Jñānamoha
  7. Karma
  8. Karmas
  9. Karmic matter
  10. Nanātamvādī
  11. Naya
  12. Pariṇāmapratyayika
  13. Pratyākhyāna
  14. Puruṣaliṅga siddha
  15. Science
  16. Siddha
  17. Soul
  18. Space
  19. Three Jewels
  20. no-karma
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