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Sadhana - spiritual path
Sadhu - monk
Samvara - stoppage of karmic influx
Sangha - monastic order, congregation
Sanskara - impressions from previous actions; values
Sarvodaya - universal welfare
Satyuga - golden age
Seth - a wealthy merchant
Śāstrakāra - scholars of religious texts
Śrāvaka - lay-person; house-holder
Śrenika - the king of Rajagriha
Śūdra - persons of lower caste according to Hinduism
Shunya - void; emptyness
Sīmandhara Svāmī
the celestial region
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Sthula sarira - gross body; physical body
Sudharma Svāmī - prime disciple of Lord Mahāvīra, the first acharya of Jaina sangha
Sūkṣma sarira - subtle body
Sūtra - aphorisms from agamas
Tirtha laywomen
Tirthankara - ford-builders; the omniscient spiritual teachers of the Jainas
an enlightened being who now resides in
four-fold congregation of monks, nuns, laymen and
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Umāsvāti - A Jaina scholar, who lived around 2nd century B.C, the author of Tattvartha Sūtra.
Upasama - subsidence; cessation
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