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Glossary of Technical Terms
Naraka
Nirgrantha
Nirjarä
Nirvāṇa
Pāpa
Paramāņu
Parmātmā
Parigraha
Parīṣaha
Pramāda
Pravacana Mātā
Pudgala
Punya
Pūrva
Ratnatraya
Sādhanā
Sāmāyika
Samiti
Samsara
Samvara
Samyama
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: liberation; emancipation; release from
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demerit; sin; inauspicious karmas.
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hell; the world of infernal beings.
a detached monk.
annihilation of Karmas.
: eight spiritual exercises that prepare a monk for advanced meditational states, they consist of five vigilances and three restraints.
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supreme soul; the highest (the liberated) soul.
possession; attachment.
hardship borne by monks for destruction of karmas to attain emancipation.
invigilance; negligence; carelessness.
: triple jewels, viz., right faith, right knowledge and right conduct.
accomplishment; spiritual practice.
equanimity; fusion with the true self; a Jaina practice of being one with the reality. self-regulation; acts of carefulness ( elaborated in Pravacana Mātā ).
empirical existence; cycle of transmigration.
meritorious deeds; auspicious karmas.
fourteen Jaina canonical texts existing before Mahāvīra but which are now extinct.
stoppage of Karmic influx; spiritual path.
self-restraint.
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