1. Epistemology & Pramāṇa
- Adhikāra
- Moral and intellectual eligibility required for engaging sacred and metaphysical texts (§4).
- Apauruṣeya
- Unauthored by any conditioned or unconditioned human intellect; eternal revealed sound vibration (§1.2).
- Svataḥ-prāmāṇya
- The intrinsic self-validity of authorized cognitive instruments prior to defeater evidence (§1.3).
2. Hermeneutics & Mīmāṁsā
- Samanvaya
- The universal, unbroken harmonic concordance of all Vedic texts in the Supreme Being (VS 1.1.4, §6).
- Parama-mukhya-vṛtti
- The supreme transcendent primary semantic capacity of words, denoting Lord Viṣṇu / Kṛṣṇa in the highest etymological sense (§7).
- Sarva-śabda-vācyatva
- The doctrine that all words, in their primary function, denote Viṣṇu, and that their application to ordinary objects is the derived and restricted usage. Madhva's distinctive semantic position, of which parama-mukhya-vṛtti is the technical name (§7.1, §7.6 width 2).
- Sarvaghoṣāḥ
- “All sounds.” From Madhva's Aitareya Upaniṣad Bhāṣya: the ocean, the thunder, the falling tree, the struck drum — every sound whatsoever is a name of Him alone. The maximal form of the theory of names, extending it from articulate speech to the acoustic field as such (§7.2, §7.6 width 3). Grade B pending collation; register entry D-21.
- Vyāmiśra
- “Intermixed.” The mode in which a devatā name reaches Puruṣottama truly but without holding the delegated bearer and the source apart (Bharadvāja Saṁhitā 2.1.79, §7.3). The term names the mechanism that answers the vacuity objection at §7.4.
- Ṣaḍ-liṅga
- The six marks of purport (Upakrama-Upasaṁhāra, Abhyāsa, Apūrvatā, Phala, Arthavāda, Upapatti) used to determine textual intention (§8.2).
- S1–S5 (the samanvaya test)
- The five-step procedure run on every disputed term: list the predicates, test the ordinary referent, halt if it passes, escalate only on overflow, corroborate. S3 is the stopping condition, and its presence is what keeps the theory of names falsifiable (§6.2).
- Lakṣaṇā / gauṇa-vṛtti
- The secondary or indicative function of a word. A last resort, licensed only under all five conditions L1–L5 and never on grounds that presuppose the conclusion (§9.2, §9.3).
3. Vedānta & Theology
- Puruṣottama
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, transcendent over both perishable matter and imperishable souls (BG 15.18).
- Paramparā
- The unbroken chain of disciplic succession acting as an authorized epistemological chain of custody (§3.2).