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GLOSSARY
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“V” Vaikriyika sharira (Transformable body) Vaimanikas (Heavenly gods) Vairagya (Detachment, renunciation) Vajra (Diamonds, adamantine) Vaiyavritti (Respectful service to the saints) Vanaspatikayika (Plant beings, vegetables) Veda (Sex, sign) Vedaka Samyaktva (A synonym for kshayopashama samyaktva) Vibhanga-jnana (Wrong clairvoyance) Vibhava (Defiled, impure, disposition) Vichara (Shifting attention or upayoga from one object or mode to another) Vigrahagati (Transit from one body to another) Vinaya Mithyatva (False belief of the type of paying respect or reverence indiscriminately to all true-untrue gods, preceptors & scriptures, etc.) Virodhi Himsa (Injury caused in facing an enemy) Virya (Energy, soul's power to know & see ) Virya-antaraya karma (Energy obstructing karma) Vishuddhi (Purity) Vitaraga (Free from passion & attachment, etc., an epithet of an Arhanta) Vrata (Restraint, vow, oath) Vrata-Pratima (The second stage where a layman assumes the Anuvratas - small vows) Vratti-parisamkhyana (Limiting the extent of one's begging rounds) Vyantara/Vyantari (The peripatetic gods/goddesses) Vyavahara (Convention) Vyavahara-naya (Conventional standpoint) Vyutsarga (Renunciation of egoistic thoughts)
"Y"
Yaksha (Demigod) Yathakhyata charitra (Perfect conduct or conduct conforming to perfect purity) Yoga (Activity) Yojana (A measure of distance equal to 4 kosas of 2 miles each = 8 miles distance) Yoni (Nucleus)
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