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JAINA PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION
Niḥśreyas Salvation.
Niḥśvāsa Exhalation. Niḥsrta Manifest.
Nīkācana Invitation. Nikācana A state of karma in which there is no possibility of any change in its nature, intensity etc.
Nikaya A collection, a group; salvation.
Nikṛti Deceit.
Nikṣipta A fault incurred by an ascetic by accepting food etc. placed on an animate thing.
Nikṣepa Positing a meaning, determination of a meaning; placing, putting. Nigamana Conclusion.
Nigoda A vegetation in the lowest form of life.
Nitya Permanent, eternal, constant, perpetual.
Nityabhakta Daily meal. Nityavāda Eternalism.
Nityavāsa Living in one place permanently.
Nidāna Desire for worldly gain as a reward for austerities. Nidrā Ordinary sleep. Nidränidrā Deep sleep.
Nidhatti Incapability of all the processes of karma other than increased realisation and decreased realisation. Nibandha Operation.
Nimittakāraṇa Instrumental
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cause.
Nigraha Preventing sinful Niravadya Sinless.
activity.
Nimittapinda Accepting alms on the basis of augury. Niyati Fate, destiny, predetermination.
Niyativada Fatalism, determinism, necessitarianism. Niyativadin determinist.
A fatalist, a
Niyama A secondary vow. Niyaga Emancipation.
Niramagandha Faultless. Nirupakrama Irreducible, inevitable.
Nirodha Cessation, prevention. Nirgrantha One devoid of knot, one without possession, detached, passionless, an
Nityanitya Permanent as well ascetic, a monk.
as impermanent.
Nirgranthadharma Jainism.
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