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Dr.Jitendra B.Shah
Ahemdabad
General Editor
Dilip V. Shah
Philadelphia
The Digambar tradition calls this festival Das Lakshana Parva and observes it…
Act of seeing, seeing or visiting idol with devotion.
Darshan also…
This karma covers the soul’s faculty of perception or vision (Perception Obscuring).…
Compassion, pity, mercy
Religion that urges (preaches) compassion towards all living beings
Substance that can be burnt, inflammable, ability to burn
Donation, charity, to give one’s own articles (food etc.) to others…
Very limited faculty of perceiving things beyond sense perception. Is able to…
This is the fifth stage of the soul’s migration towards its ultimate…
Listening to and grasping of the Jinās preaching.
In Deshanā Labdhi,…
God, Deity, Celestial living beings. There are four main types:
1.…
(Worship of the Supreme Soul)
Devpujā is first of the six-essential…
Composure, calmness, courage, patience.
(Bow Pose)
Dhanurāsan is one of the Āsanas (Yogic exercise) undertaken…
(Complete Absorption of the Mind on a Single Task):
In the…
Attribute, discreet element, religion, the real nature of an element, duty.
A religious person. Having a particular quality or property. Attributes and modes…
Permanence, constant, eternal, non-moveable
(Meditation):
This is the seventh stage of Ashtānga Yoga. The thought…
Heavenly, divine, wonderful.
A kind of Mahā - Pratihārya (superhuman magnificence) of the Tirthankara, occurrence…
Diwāli is a festival of celebrations in India and among Indians all…
Vision, view, theory, doctrine, understanding with right faith.
Differences in view or vision.
Substance – That which is the substratum of Guńa (quality), that which…
To characterize a matter in to another matter.
Perspective from substantial point of view, faith perspective
Material violence, external violence, such violence which is perpetrated to a living…
Any given thing in the universe has its own eternal existence with…
Physical aura, physical coloration.
Substantive installing e.g. the son of the king being said as king,…
Modes of a substance.
Treatment of modal appearance in to matter and matter in to modal…
Physical worship with eight substances
To make body pure with water etc. means
The partial point of view in knowing the substance.
Dravyasamgraha is one of the finest classical Jaina texts, composed by his…
Jainism does not restrict the right of attaining perfection to any one…
Eleventh of the eighteen Pāp Karma. Dvesha means hatred or aversion. It…
Twelve Angas (principal canonical works)
Conduct observed as an exception, the provision made in the code of…
Door keeper or Gate keeper for royal personages.