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form. Similarly, whenever any confusion does not arise, many more Samskyta words may be adopted with the same spelling in singular and plural forms. With such notion, the list of such words adopted in this work includes the following: Ācārya, Ajīva, Ajñānī, Aņu, Arahanta, Asrava, Bhāva, Deva, Dravya, Gati, Gāthā, Guņa, Indriya, Jina, Jīva, Jñānī, Kalasa, Karma, Kaşāya, Kāraka, Kevalī, Mithyādịşti, Naya, Nokarma, Paramāņu, Paramesthi, Paryāya, Pratyaya, Pudgala, Samaya, SamyagDrşti, Samyag Jñānī, sādhu, Sthāna, Siddha, Skandha, Spardhaka, Tattva, Tīrthamkara, Upādhyāya, Varga, Vargaņā,
Vikalpa, Yoga. (5) "Karma' word of Samskrta is a well known English word also.
However, the word Karma' used here is a technical word of Jain metaphysics (see Appendix-6) and has somewhat different meaning. ‘Karma' has also been used as "Karma-Kāraka (see Appendix-1). Similarly, a reader would note that the word 'Yoga' of Jain metaphysics has a meaning (see Appendix-1) very much different from its popular meaning. Therefore, if the meaning of a Samskýta term written in italics has not been clarified in the running text, then in that case it may be helpful for a reader to comprehend the term
by referring to the glossary (Appendix-1). (6) For the purpose of transliteration, the diacritical marks shown in the
following table have been employed.
