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GLOSSARY
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Nirjara (Dissociation of karmas) Nirvana (Salvation, complete release from bondage) Nirvichikitsa (Freedom from disgust) Nishchaya Naya (The real point of view, realistic standpoint) Nitya (Eternal) Nokashayas (Quasi-passions)
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'Om'(A synonym for five holy souls, sacred sound formed by combining the first syllable of each word in the namaskar-mantra)
Padartha (Substances, category, elements) Palya, Palyopama (Many many years period, innumerable years, a measure of max. lifetime) Papa (Vice, sin, inauspicious act, demerit) Papa-bhava (Inauspicious dispositions) Paramanu (An indivisible particle of matter, matter substance) Para-dravya-/-kshetra /-kala?/-bhava* (The being or substance', location or space?, time or state, quality of disposition respectively of other objects or substances) Paramatma (The omniscient, the liberated soul) Parameshthi (The five supreme souls – Arhant, Siddha, Acharya, Upadhyaya &Sadhu) Parigraha (Possession) Pariksha (Examination) Parinama (Thought activity, disposition, change or modification) Parivartana (Cycle of wanderings) Parishaha (Afflictions) Parishaha-jaya (Victory over the afflictions) Paroksha (Indirect or dependent knowledge accomplished through senses, inference, etc.) Parva (Holy days meant for specific religious observances) Paryapta (Attained completion) Paryapti (Completion or development) Paryaya (mode, state, modification, condition, state of existence)
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