________________
Terminology
221
Pudgala :
Matter.
Les ya :
Kind of radiation which affects the personality type, due to psychic activity. It is considered as the colouration of the soul, although soul has no colour. It is the expression of the psycho-physical activity.
Sramana :
Monk. It also refers to the current of thought, which is different from the Vedic. It is pre-Aryan current of thought prevailing in India. The Indian culture is the synthesis of the Sramana and the Brahmana current of thought.
Saṁkramana :
The process of karmic operation in which the transformation of one form of karma into the other form, like different forms in the jñanavarasiya karma.
Samvara :
The principle of Jainism which emphasises the need for prevention or of influx of karma for the sake of the self-realisation.
Syadvada :
The syadvada is the methodology of predication for expressing the different points of view. It is also called saptabhangi because there is the seven-fold predication.
Kşamd :
Forgiveness. It refers to the mental state where there is equanimity of mind and the broad feeling of one being an insignificant atom in the cosmos.
Kṣayāpasama :
Subsidence and destruction of karmic matter.
Jnana :
Knowledge.
Jñandvaraniya karma: The karma which obscures knowledge.
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
