samvara
संवर samvaraIn Jainism, the stopping of fresh karmic influx through restraint and ahimsa, halting the accumulation of karma.
Where this term appears
- The neighbours and the doubters Treatise
First, stop new particles from arriving, by restraint and non-violence; the Jains call this samvara .
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
A Śābara Tantra, on the only formal definition the catalogue literature offers, is a text of incantations that alternate between Sanskrit and Hindī, addressed to a…
- The word they were given Treatise
*Śabara* is a name outsiders gave. In the classical Sanskrit sources it marks a forest people at the edge of the settled order, then any savage at all, and the same…