The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (386 page)

(Skt., ‘learned man’). Head of a group of naked monks in
Digambara
Jainism. Buildings (
ma
ha
) to accommodate these ascetics began to be built from about the 5th cent. BCE, and the bhattarakas became in effect the presidents of them.

 
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(Skt.).
1
In
S
khya
, a set of psychological predispositions either eight or fifty in number. The more concise numbering renders them as virtue (
dharma
), vice (adharma), knowledge (
jñ
na
), ignorance (aj
na), non-attachment (
v
r
ga
), attachment (
r
ga
), power (
ai
varya
), and impotence (
anai
varya
).
These dispositions are an inherent part of human nature. They create the environment in which karma is accumulated or overcome.
2
The emotional dispositions in Hinduism of the bhakta (one engaged in
bhakti
) to the chosen deity (
i
adeva
):

(i) 
anta
, peace;
(ii) 
d
sya
, servant to master;
(iii) 
s
khya
, friend to friend;
(iv) 
v
tsalya
, parent to child;
(v) 
madhura
, wife to husband, lover to beloved.