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Papa: Vice, sin, inauspicious act, demerit.
Paramatma: The omniscient, the liberated soul.
Parva: Holy days meant for specific religious observances.
Puja: Worship.
Purva: A group of fourteen Jain canonical texts.
Punya: Merit, pious act, virtue, auspicious act or karma.
 

Pada   Word
Padartha-pratibandha   Indirectly connected with an object
Padastha-dhyana   Concentration upon holy chants
Padma-lesya   Lotus-pink karmic stain
Paduka   Footprint
Paindastha-dhyana   Concentration upon certain objects made up of the elements of matter
Paksa    Thesis
Paksa-sadhya-samsarga   Association of the subject with the probandum
Paksa-suddhi   Purification of the thesis
Paksabhana   Knowledge of the subject
Paksadharmata   Subsistence in the subject
Paksadharmatva   Subsistence in the subject
Paksadosa   Fallacy in the thesis
Paksavacana   Statement of the subject
Paksiya sadhya-sadhana-sambandha   Relationship of the probandum and the probane of the subject
Pamana-siddha   Proved by definite organ of knowledge
Panca-kalyana   The five auspicious events in the life of a Tirthankara; -mahotsava (the  celebration of these events)
Panca-mahavrata   see also mahavrata
Panca-namaskara-mantra   see also namaskara-mantra
Panca-rupya   Five characteristics
Panchendriya   Five-sensed.
Pani-patra   Hand-bowl
Papa   Unwholesome karmas
Papopadesha   Preaching of sin to others.
Para (Samgraha naya)   Ultimate
Para prashansa   praising others
Para-dravya   The being, location, time, or state, respectively, of other objects
Para-pratipatti   Understanding of others
Paraghata   Destructive; Possessing a limb or organ fatal to others, as a lion's claws,
etc.
Paramanu   Atom
Paramatman   The highest [the liberated] soul
Paramesthin   The supreme divinity
Paramita   Perfection
Paraninda   Speaking ill of others.
Parartha   For others (eye etc.)
Parartha (Anumana)   For others (i.e.  syllogistic)
Pararthya   Meant for others
Parasamaya   The tenants of others
Paridevana   Piteous or pathetic moaning to attract compassion.
Parigraha   Possession
Worldly attachment.
Parigraha-tyaga   Preparatory to the monk's life.  enjoins a gradual giving up of the world  and retiring into some very quiet place to acquire the knowledge of truth  and ultimately to become fit to be a teacher of the path to Liberation.
Parigrahatyaga-pratima   The ninth stage in which a layman abandons the cares of worldly  possessions
Parihara-vishuddhi   Ideal and passionless conduct.
Pariksa   Examination
Parinama   Modification
Parinami-nitya   Eternal but constantly changing
Parinamika   Existence of knowledge
Parinamin   Changing
Paripurna (Naigama)   Non-distinguished in general
Parisaha-jaya   Victory over the afflictions
Parishaha   Sufferings.
Parishaha-jaya   Sub-dual of sufferings
Paritapiki-kriya   Anything which may cause mental pain to oneself or others.
Parivrajaka   A non-Jaina mendicant
Parmarthika (Pratyaksa)   Transcendental
Paroksa   Indirect perception, accomplished through the senses, inference, etc.  non-perceptual
Paroparodhakarana   Residence in a place where one is not likely to be prohibited by others nor  where one should be likely to prohibit others.
Parsad gunaudbhavana   proclaiming the good qualities of others.
Parthivi-dharana   Visualization of certain scenes by means of the earth element
Parvan   Jaina holy days
Paryapta   rational five-sensed, fully developable soul.
Paryapti   Developable; capable of developing the body.
Paryaya   Mode
Mode; a synonym for bhava
Modification
Modifications
Paryaya   Synonym
Paryayarthikabhasa   False point of view of mode
Paryayastikanaya   Point of view of the mode
Paryusana-parva   A ten-day holy period for fasting during the rainy season
Pasavaccijja   Those who follow the discipline of Parsva
Patra   Bowl
Paudgalika   Material
Phaddaga   A chapter of monks
Phala   Fruit
Resultant
Pinchi   A peacock-feather whiskbroom
Pita   Yellow.
Pita-lesya   Yellow karmic stain
Pitr-loka   World of the Manes
Posadhopavasa   The third siksavrata and fourth pratima; fasting on the eighth and
fourteenth days of each lunar fortnight
Posaha-sala   Fasting hall
Prabhavana   Illumination
Propagation of the path of Liberation.
Prachala   Drowsiness.
Prachala-prachala   Heavy drowsiness.
Pradesa   Space-point; amount of karma
Pradesha   Quantity
pradesha-bandha   The particular number of the molecules actually absorbed.
Pradeshatva   Capacity of having some kind of location in space.
Spatiality
Pradoshiki-kriya   Tendency to accuse others in anger
Prajna   Wisdom
Prakaranasama (Hetvabhasa)   Inconclusive
Prakirnaka   Miscellaneous; a group of Jaina canonical texts; scatterd stars
Prakriti   kind
Prakrti   Original nature of mind and matter in the Samkhya doctrine; types of
karma
Pralaya   Demanifestation
Pramada   Carelessness
Negligence; carelessness; apathy
Pramada-charitra   Thoughtless or inconsiderate conduct, such as plucking flowers or
breaking branches of trees, without any purpose.
Pramana   Dimensions
Organ of knowledge
Pramana-prasiddhatva   Definitelly proved
Pramana-vikalpa-prasiddatva   Optionally proved
Pramana-vikalpa-siddha Proved as well as optionally proved
Pramanaikadesatva   Cognising a part of the organ of knowledge
Pramanatva   (No definition given)
Pramanavakya   Statement of the organ of knowledge
Pramanya   Validity
Pramatr   The knower
Pramatta-virata   Total restraint without overcoming pramada; the sixth gunasthana
Pramatva   Organ of knowledge
Prameya   Subject
Prameyatva   Capacity of being known by someone, or of being the subject-matter of
knowledge.
Know-ability
Pramoda   Delight at the sight of beings,better qualified or more advanced than  ourselves on the path of liberation.
Pranatipiki-kriya   Depriving another of vitalities of age, sense-organs, power or respiration.
Pranayama   Yogic control of respiration
Prapyakarita   Working in close contact
Prapyakaritva   Contactory nature
Prarambha-kriya   trying to persevere in one's attachment to worldly belongings.
Prasama   Ease
Prasanga-viparyaya   Perverted cause
Prasiddha   Proved
Prasna   Question
Prasnadesa   Astrologer (who answers questions)
Prasnika   Who asks question
Prati-narayana   A Jaina literary type; the villian
Pratibandha   Hindrance
Pratiharya   Miraculous phenomenon
Pratijna   Thesis
Pratikramana   Ritualized confession
Pratima   Stages of renunciation for a layman
Pratimas   The Eleven stages of the Householder's Life.
Pratipatin (Avadhi)   Extinguishing
Pratisedha   Negation
Pratisedha-sadhaka (Hetu)   Which proves something negative
Pratisedharupa (Hetu)   Negative
Pratisrika   Each one of them
Pratita   Obstructed
Prativadin   Opponent
Pratyabhijna   Recognition
Pratyakhyana   Renunciation of certain foods; one of the six avasayakas
Pratyakhyanavarananiya   Obstructors of complete renunciation
Pratyakhyanavaraniya   Total-vow-preventing passions including anger, pride, deceit and greed.
Pratyaksa   Direct perception
Perceptual cognition
Pratyaksa viruddha   Contradicted by perceptual cognition
Pratyaksagamya   Perceived directly
Pratyayiki-kriya   Inventing new sense-enjoyments.
Pratyeka   Individual; solitary
Pratyeka sharira   Individual body; A body enjoyable by one soul only.
Pratyeka Sharira-Vargana   Individual body-molecule
Pravacana-matrka   The eight exercises that prepare a monk for advanced meditational states
Pravachana-bhakti   Devotion to Scriptures.
Pravachanavatsalatva   Tender affection for one's brothers on the path of liberation.
Pravrajya   Renunciation
Pravrttinimitta   Usage
Prayascitta   Repentence of transgressions
Prayashchitta   Expiation--internal austerity.
Prayoga-kriya   bodily movement.
Prayogya-labdhi   Reduction of karmic matter in soul attainment of purity due to such a
reduction
Prayojaka-vrddha   A man, who comprehends the word
Prayojya-vrddha   Elder person, who is asked to do a thing
Proshadhopavasa   Fortnightly must fast.
    Taking a vow to fast on 4 days of the month,viz.  the two 8th and the two  14th days of every lunar fortnight.
Prthvi-kayika   Earthbodies
Psadha-pratima   The fourth sravaka-pratima
Pudgala   Matter
Pudgala Dravya   Matter-Substance
pudgala-skandha   Aggregate of matter
Pudgalavadin   Follower of Buddhist school which upholds a theory of soul
Puja   Worship
Pumveda   Masculine.
Sexual cravings for a female
Punya-karma   Wholesome karma
Punya-ksetra   Field of merit
Puranas   Name of a class of sacred texts dealing with the lives of Tirthankaras
Purusa   Person
Soul
Purusa-visesa   Special soul, i.e., the God (Isvara) of the Yoga school
Purusaveda   Male-sex-consciousness
Purva    A group of fourteen Jaina canonical texts, now extinct
Purva ratanu smarana-tyaga   Renouncing of thinking over, remembrance of past enjoyment of women.
Purvacara (Hetu)   Predecessor
Purvacaranupalabdhi   Non-availability of the predecessor
Puspa   Flower