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GLOSSARY
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Purushartha (Effort-making, right effort) Purva (A group of fourteen Jaina canonical texts)
“R”
Raga (Attachment, passion, desire) Rajas (Endowed with pride passion, etc.) Rajoharana (A whisk broom) Rasa (Taste) Rasana (Tongue) Rasa-parityaga (Abandonment of stimulating or delicious food) Rati (Pleasure in sensual indulgence) Ratnatraya (The three jewels - right faith, right knowledge and right conduct) Ratri-bhojana (Eating at night) Raudra-dhyana (Cruel concentration, feeling pleasure in indulgence in sinful acts of injury, etc.) Rijusutra-naya (The straight view point) Ruksha (Dry, rough) Rupi (Material object having touch, taste, odour, colour)
“S” Sabda-naya (The verbal viewpoint) Salya (Sting) Sharira (Body) Shauch (Freedom from greed) Shraddha; Shraddhana (Belief, conviction) Shravaka (Householder) Shrèni (Spiritual ladder) Shruta (Scripture, scriptural knowledge) Shurta-kevali (Omniscient in the scriptures) Shubha (Good, auspicious) Shukla-dhyana (Pure concentration or meditation free from attachmentaversion) Shvetambara (White clad, a Jaina sect whose mendicants wear white garments) Sachitta (With living matter, vegetables, etc.)
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