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Samavasara: Holy assembly of Jina.
Sangha: Community.
Sloka: Versa.
Siddha Kshetra: The place from where the Muni / Munis attended salvation.
Sagaropama:
an incredible period of time.
Sabala
"Disfigured"; offence
Sabda Verbal testimony
Sabda (Kaladigata) Word
Sabda (Naya) The verbal
Sabdabhasa The false verbal view-point
Sabdadyullekha Mention of word etc.
Sabdallekha Mention of word
Sabdanayabhasa False point of view of word
Sachitta-tyaga Abstinence from the flesh of conscious creatures.
Sacittatyaga-pratima The fifth stage, in which a layman ceases to
take certain vegetable life as
food
Sad gunochchhadana concealing the good qualities of others
Sada-mukta Forever free of bondage
Saddharma-vrddhi Increase in righteousness
Sadhana Probans
Sadharana Common body; Possessed and enjoyable by many souls as a
potato.
Sadharana-vanaspati Souls which exist together with many others
in a common plant body
Sadharma avishamvada Not disputing with one's co-religonists, as
to "mine" and "thine".
Sadhu Mendicant
Sadhu-Samadhi Protecting and reassuring to saints or
removing their troubles.
Sadhya Probandum
Sadhya-dharma-visista The object which is qualified by the quality
to be proved
Sadhya-dharmadhara The substratum of the quality to be proved
Sadhya-sadhana-bhava Probaundum and probane relationship
Sadhyiji A nun of the Svetambara or Sthanakavasi sect
Sadi Having a beginning
Sadrsa Similar
Sadrsya Similarity
Sadrsya-jnana Knowledge fo similarity
Sahabhavin Simultaneous
Sahacara Futile invention
Simultaneous
Sahacaranupalabdhi Non-availability of one which is simultaneous
Sahasa putting down a thing hurriedly
Sakala-pratyaksa Perfect perception
Sakaladatti Transference of property prior to renunciation
Sakaladesa Full statement
Sakara Having a form
Sallekhana Ritual death by fasting
Sallekhanavrata The decision to perform sallekhana
Samabhirudha (Naya) Subtle
Samabhirudhabhasa False subtle view
Samachaturasra Symmetrical; perfect symmetry all round.
Samadana-kriya tendency to neglect vows, after having taken them.
Samadhi-marana Death while in meditation
Samanadhikaranya Co-existence
Samanaska Endowed with the mental capacity Possessed of mind
Samantanupatana-kriya Answering call of nature in a place
frequented by men, women or animals.
Samanya Generality
Samanya-guna Common Attributes
Samanyalaksana pratyasatti Relatonship of generalisation
Samarambha Preparation for a thing i.e.
collecting materials for it. Compare in
Criminal Law the conduct of the criminal before committing the offence.
Samarthana Corroboration
Samarthana-nyaya Acceptance of the propriety of the cause
Samarthyapratibandha Non-hindrance in capability
Samavasarana Holy assembly of the Jina
Samavayi-dravya-sabda Word indicating a collection
Samaya Moment
Samayika Attaining equanimity; fusion with the true self
Taking a vow to devote so much time eveyday, once, twice
or three times,
at sunrise, sunset, and noon for contemplation of the self for spiritual
advancement. Worship--self-contemplation and purifying one's ideas and
emotions.
Samayika-caritra Avoiding all evil actions, identical to the
assumption of the five mahavratas
Samayika-pratima The third stage of practicing samayika
Samayika-samyama A synonym for samayika-caritra
Samayikavrata Cultivation of equanimity; the second of the
siksavratas
Sambandha Relationship
Sambandha (Kaladigata) Relationship
Sambandhin Which are related
Samgha Order of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen
Samgha-pati Leader of lay community
Samghata Aggregation
Samgraha (Naya) Generic
Samgrahabhasa False generic point of view
Samgrahika (Naigama) Generic
Samhanana Bones, muscle, etc.
Samhata-pararthatva Collection, meant for others
Samiti (Self-) regulation
Carefulness
Samjni Able to think abstractly about spiritual matters
Samjvalana Perfect conduct preventing. This is th slightest
degree of passion and
co-exists with self-restraint of a high order.
Smoldering; -kasaya, subtle passions which are removed
as one progresses from the sixth to the twelfth gunasthana
Samkalpaja-himsa Intentional, premeditated violence
Samkramana Energy that contributes to the differentiation or
transformation of karmas
Sampada Qualifications (of an acarya)
Sampurna-naigama Full non-distinguished
Samrambha Determination to do a thing - compare intention for an
offence in Criminal
Law.
Samsara Cycle of transmigration
Mudane Life
Samsara anupreksha Mudaneness. Soul moves in the cycle of
existences and cannot attain true happiness till he is out of it.
Samsarga (Kaladigata) Contact
Samsargin Which comes in contact
Samsari-jiva Mundane soul
Samsaya Doubt
Samshaya Doubt, scepticism, hesitaion, e.g., as to path of
Liberation
Samskara Latent mental trace
Samskara-prabodha Awakening of the latent impression
Samskaras Sacred rites
Samsthana Figure; figure of the body.
Samsthanavicaya Contemplation of the structure of the universe
Samudayavada Collective
Samudghata Bursting forth; expansion of the soul to the limits of
the loka-akasa
Samudita Jointly
Samvara Spiritual path; the stoppage of karmic influx
Stoppageof Inflow
Stopped.
the stoppage of inflow of karmic matter into the soul.
Samvara anupreksha Stoppage. The inflow must be stopped.
Samvatsari Annual ceremony of public confession
Samvega Agitation leading to disenchantment Perpetual
apprehension of mundane niseries.
The apprhension of the miseries of the world.
Samvyavahara Transaction
Samvyavaharika Empirical (intuition)
Samvyavaharika-pratyaksa Direct perception, in the conventional
sense
Samyag mithyatva (mishra) Right-wrong belief;mixed wrong and right
belief.
Samyag-darsana Right faith
Samyag-drsti Right vision
Samyag-jnana Right cognition
Samyak (Srutajnana) Authentic
Samyak-caritra Proper conduct
Samyak-darsana Correct view of reality; true spiritual insight;
faith in the teachings of the
Jina
Samyak-drsti The fourth gunasthana, in which one attains
samyak-darsana
Samyak-jnana Correct knowledge; knowledge associated with
samyak-darsana
Samyak-mithyatva A state of transition in which both correct and
incorrect views are present;
the third gunasthana
Samyaka adana nikshepa samiti Proper care in lifting and laying.
Samyaka bhasha samiti Proper care in speaking.
Samyaka eshana samiti Proper care in eating.
Samyaka irya samiti Proper care in walking.
Samyaka utsarga Samiti Proper care in excreting.
Samyaktva Authenticity
Samyaktva Prakriti Clouded-right-belief; right belief clouded by
slight wrong belief. Full right belief of the subsidential or
destructive knid, being a characteristic
Samyaktva Prakriti primary attribute of the soul, manifests itself
at the subsidence or destruction of this sub-class.
Samyaktva-kriya that which strengthens right belief
e.g., worship, etc.
Samyam-asamyama restraint by vows of some, but not of others.
Samyama Restraint
Samyamasamyama Restraint of some vows, but not of others, found in
laymen only.
Samyogi-dravya-sabda Word indicating a union
Sandeha Doubt
Sandigdha-vipaksa-vrttika (Hetvabhasa) Whose existence in the
heterologous is doubtful
Sangha The Saints' brotherhoods.
Sangraha-naya Synthetic view
Sanjna (Aksarasruta) Script
Sanjna-sanjni-sambandha Relationship of word and its meaning
Sanjnin (Srutajnana) Discursive
Sanka-matra-vighataka Being a remover of the doubt in general
Sankalana Synthetic judgment
Sankalanatmaka Synthetic
Sankhya Number
Sankhyatanu-Vargana Numerable-atoms-molecule
Sankita Doubtful
Sannikarsa Approximity
Santara-Shunya-Vargana Inter-non-inter-indifferent molecule
Santara-Vargana Inter-non-inter molecule
Sapaksa Homologous instance
Saparyavasita (Srutajnana) Having end
Sapindikarana A ritual connected with offering of food to the
Manes
Sapta-bhangi-naya The sevenfold predication
Saptabhanga Seven aspects
Saptabhangi Seven-fold statement
Saptapadi That portion of the Hindu wedding ceremony in which the
couple takes
seven steps around the fire
Saraga-samyama self-control with slight attachment; etc.
Sarage-samyama Self-control with slight attachment found in monks
only.
Sarana Refuge
Sarira Body
Sarva-virata Attainment of sarva-virati; the sixth gunasthana
Sarva-virati Total restraint of a mendicant
Sarvajna An omniscient being; a synonym for kevalin
Sasana-devata Guardian spirits
Sastra Scripture
Sasvadana State of "mixed taste"; the second gunasthana
Sat Being
Sat-jiva-nikaya The six kinds of living beings, namely, the five
ekendriyas and the trasa
Sata-vedaniya Pleasure-feeling; that which brings pleasure.
Sata-vendaniya Pleasure-bearing feeling karmic matter
Sata, Satavedaniya Experience of pleasure
Satpratipaksa Inconclusive reason
Satrsanac Continuous participles
Sattadvaita Non-duality of the existence
Sattveshu Living beings.
Satya Truth Vrata - the vow to abstain from lying
Satya mana True mind
Satya-vachana True
Savicara Accompanied by applied thinking
Savipaka The ripening of fruit by itself.
Savipaka-nirjara The natural maturing of a karma and its
separation from the soul.
Sayoga-kevalin A kevalin still possessed of the activities of body,
speech, and mind; the thirteenth gunasthana
Shaktitas-tapa The practice of austerities, according to one's
capacity.
Shaktitas-tyaga Giving to others, gift of knowledge, food,
medicine, etc., according to one's capacity.
Shalya A thorn; a blemish.
Sharira Bodies.
The body.
Sharitra Conduct.
Sharitra-mohaniya Right-conduct-deluding.
Shaucha contentmant
Shiksha-vratas Four vows relating to meditation in the morning,
noon, and evening, to keeping fast on certain days, and to his duty of
daily giving charity in the form of knowledge, medicine, comfort, and
food.
Shila Restrictions
Shila vrateshvanatichara Faultless observance of the Five Vows,
and faultless subdual of the passions. Shita``Cold.
Shoka Sorrow
Shruta Scriptures
Shruta-jnanavarana Scriptural-knowledge-obscuring.
Shubha Beautiful (body).
Graceful.
Shukla White.
Siddha A liberated soul; a kevalin freed from all activities
whatsoever
Liberated soul
Proved
The Realised Soul.
Siddha sadhana The means to prove
Siddha-gati The destiny of the siddha
Siddha-loka The permanent abode of the siddha; a synonym for
isat-pragbhara-bhumi
Siddhanta Doctrine
Siddhi Yogic power
Siksavratas Vows of spiritual descipline
Sila Conduct
Silpa Handcrafts
Skandha Aggregate
Smarana Recollection
Smrta Remembered
Smrti Memory
Smrti-jnanavarana Knowledge-obscuring karman of memory
Snapana The ceremony of sprinkling or bathing the Jina-image
Snigdha Smooth.
Snigdha-ruksatva Moisture and dryness (of atoms)
Soka Sorrow
Sparsa Touch
Sparsha Touch
Sparshana-kriya Frivolous indulgence in touching.
Spasta Obvious
Spastata Clarity
Sraddha Faith
Offering of food to the Manes
Sramana A non-Vedic mendicant, usually a Jaina or a Buddhist
Sramanabhuta A novice about to become a mendicant
Sramanopasaka A disciple of the ascetics; a synonym for sravaka
Sravaka A layman; a synonym for upasaka and sramanopasaka
Sravaka-pratima The eleven stages of the path of the layman; a
synonym for
upasaka-pratima
Sravakacara Book of the layman's discipline
Sreni Ladder A term applied to the eighth, ninth, and
tenth gunasthanas
Srotra Ear
Sruta Scriptural (cognition)
The oral tradition of Jaina scripture
Sruta-pancami The "scripture-fifth," a Jaina holiday
Srutajnana Knowledge derived from instruction and reasoning
Srutanusarana Basing on word
Srutanusarin Based on word
Srutanusaritva Based on word
Srutopayoga Conscious activity towards verbal thinking
Stava Hymn of praise
Steya Theft.
Sthana Situation.
Sthanakavasi Dwellers in halls; name of a Jaina sect whose
members do not worship in
temples
Sthapana Replacement
Sthapana Ritual act of asking a monk to stop for alms
Sthapanacarya Sacred objects used as a substitute for a teacher
Sthapanajina Symbol of Jina
Sthapanajiva Image symbol of soul
Sthapanendra Symbol of Indra
Sthavara Immobile beings, such as plants Immobile, with bodies
having one sense only, i.e., the sense of touch.
Sthavira Elder
Elder (of the monastaries)
Sthavirakalpin A monk who lives in an ecclesiastical community
Sthira Steady (circulation of blood, bile, etc.).
Sthitapaksatva Real doctrine
Sthiti Duration
Sthiti karana To help oneself or others to remain steady in the
path of truth.
Sthtikarana Acting to promote the stability of another's faith
in the Jaina path
Stotra A philosophical hymn
Stri-Katha Women
Strimukti Attainment of moksa in a female incarnation
Striraga-katha-shravana tyaga Renouncing of(reading or) hearing
stories exciting attachment for women
Striveda Feminine inclination.
Sexual cravings for a male
Stupa Reliquary mound
Styanagriddhi Somnambulism.
Styanarddhi-nidra Somnambulism
Subhaga Amiable; amaiable personality, even though not
beautiful.
Suddha dravya Pure existence of the substance
Suddhi Purity
Sudra A member of the fourth caste
Sugamdha Sweet-smelling; fragrant.
Sukha Bliss
Sukha-vedana Feeling of happiness
Sukla White
Sukla-lesya Luminous white karmic stain
Sukshma Fine (body) uncuttable and all-pervasive.
Sukshma Nigoda-Vargana Fine-common-body-molecule
Suksma-samparaya The state of having only the subtle passions;
the tenth gunasthana
Suksmakriya-anivartin The state of subtle movement
Sunyagara Residence in a solitary place, like a mountain or cave,
etc.
Susama Happy
Susama-dusama More happy than unhappy
Susama-susama Extremely happy
Susvara Sweet-voiced, musical.
Sutra Style Aphoristic mode of presentation; the canonical
scriptures
Suya-nana Scriptural knowledge
Sva sharira sanskara-tyaga Renouncing of beautifying one's own
body; self-adornment.
Sva-dravya Specific being, location, time, and state, respectively
of oneself
Sva-para-vyavasayin Definiitive cognition of the self and others
Sva-samviditva Self-illuminating
Svabhava Own nature
Svabhava-parinama Undefiled change
Svabhava-sthita Established in one's own nature
Svabhava-viruddha Contradiction in nature
Svabhavanupalabdhi Non-availability of the nature
Svadeha-parimana The physical dimensions of the soul identical to
those of its current body
Svadhyaya Study--internal austerity.
The study of the scriptures
Svahasta-kriya Undertaking to do by one's own hand, what should be
done by others.
Svamitva The knower
Svanuraktatvakarana Sustaining object in its own form
Svapaka The lowest class in Indian society
Svartha (anumana) For oneself (inference)
Svartha-vyavasiti Definite cognition of the self
Svarupa Form
Svarupa-pratiti Indetermination of knowledge
Svarupa-prayuktavyabhicara Characterised by the innate nature of
the object
Svarupa-visesana Indication of nature
Svasamaya One's own doctrine
Svastika Well-being; the stylized wheel of life
Svati Tapering;
like a snake-hole, broad in lower but short in the upper extremities,
reverse of Nyag rodha parimandala.
Svetambara White [cotton]-clad; name of Jaina sect whose mendicants
wear white garments
Svetapata A synonym for Svetambara
Syadvada The doctrine of qualified assertion
Syat From a particular point of view
In some respect
Syatkara Marked by syat
Sykladhyana Pure concentration