| WORD | MEANING |
| Madhu: | Honey |
| Madhura: | Sweet. |
| Madhya-loka: | Middle of terrestrial world |
| Madhyasthya: | Tolerance or indifference to those who are uncivil or ill-behaved. |
| Madya: | Alcohol |
| Maha-Skandha-Vargana: | Great-molecule-molecule |
| Mahana: | Prakrit for Sanskrit brahmana |
| Mahavira-jayanti: | Birth anniversary of Mahavira |
| Mahavrata: | The five great vows of a mendicant |
| Maitri: | Benevolence for all living beings. |
| Mamsa: | Flesh; meat |
| Mana: | Movement by mind. |
| Pride | |
| Manah-paryaya: | Psychic mode |
| Manah-paryaya (Jnana): | Intuition of the modes of other minds Telepathy |
| Manah-paryaya-darsana: | Intuition of the psychic mode |
| Manahparyaya-jnanavarana: | Mental-knowledge-obscuring. |
| Manahparyayajnana: | Direct awareness of thought forms of others without the aid of mind or senses |
| Manas: | Mind |
| Manasatva: | Mental cognition |
| Manastambha: | A characteristic Jaina pillar |
| Mano Agrahya-Vargana: | Mind-unreceivable-molecule |
| Mano-Vargana: | Mind-molecule |
| Manodravya: | Mind substance |
| Manogupti: | Preservation of mind. |
| Manojanma: | Born of mind |
| Manojanya: | Born of mind |
| Mantra: | Holy litany |
| Manushya: | Human. |
| Manushya Anupurvi: | Human--Migratory form. |
| Manushya-Ayu: | Human-age-karma |
| Manushyayu: | Human age. |
| Manusya: | Human being |
| Manusya-gati: | Human destiny |
| Marga prabhavana: | Propagation of the path of Liberation. |
| Masi: | Ink; writing |
| Mastakabhiseka: | Head-anointing [ceremony] |
| Mati (Jnana): | Perceptual |
| Mati-jnanavarana: | Sensitive-knowledge-obscuring. |
| Matijana: | Mind-based knowledge |
| Maulahetu: | Original cause |
| Maya: | Causes inflow of sub-human age karma |
| Cheating others, preaching the false doctrines, etc. Deceit | |
| Deceit. | |
| Maya-shalya: | The thorn of deceit. |
| Mayakriya: | Deceitful disturbance of some one's right knowledge and faith. |
| Mayavada: | Illusionism |
| Mithya (Sruta): | FALSE |
| Mithya-drsti: | Perverted vision |
| Mithya-shalya: | The thorn of wrong-belief. |
| Mithyadarsana: | Synonymous with mathyadrsti and mithyatva |
| wrong-belief | |
| Mithyadrsti: | Incorrect view of reality |
| Mithyatva: | Lack of insight; |
| wrong belief. | |
| synonymous with mithyadarsana | |
| synonymous with mithyadrsti | |
| Mithyatva-kriya: | Action which strengthens wrong belief, e.g., superstition, etc. |
| Mohaniya: | Deluding |
| Mohaniya-karma: | Karma that prevents the true perception of reality and the purity of the soul; karma that defiles the bliss-quality of the soul |
| Moksa: | Liberation |
| Salvation; emancipation from the cycle of birth and death | |
| Moksa-marga: | The path of salvation |
| Moksha: | Liberation |
| The total separation of Soul from the bondage of all matter | |
| Muh-patti: | A small piece of cloth worn over the mouth by Sthanakavasi mendicants to protect airbodies from harm |
| Mukta: | The Liberated Soul. |
| Mula Guna: | a kind of production of the dependance relating to the non-soul, i.e., of the body, speech, mind and respiration. |
| Mulagunas: | The eight basic restraints of a Jaina layman |
| Mulasutra: | A group of texts belonging to the subsidiary canon |
| Muni: | Mendicant; sage |
| Murccha: | Delusion |
| Murtatva: | Along with Achetanatva, is common to Matter. |
| Materiality |