The Lives of the Jain Elders is the standard synthesis of source material for the early history of Jainism by the great twelfth-century Jain scholar-monk, Hemacandra, also a key figure in the wider context of Sanskrit literature. Abounding in memorable characters, and providing a rich compendium of Indian folk-tale, The Lives of the Jain Elders offers fascinating insight into the social life of medieval India. This new translation makes the complete work available for the first time in a European language and is complemented by a full introduction illuminating Jain belief and history.The Lives of the Jain Elders is the standard synthesis of source material for the early history of Jainism by the great twelfth-century Jain scholar-monk, Hema...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...
The late medieval Śvetāmbara Jain tradition has been largely understood in terms of \u27decline\u27 ...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at di...
The Life of Padma, or the Paümacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha langu...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Jain narrative literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Apabhraṃśa is rightly recognised as one of South...
There is a growing recognition that scholarship on Indian religions has been hampered by the lack of...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
In this book, the author presents recent, somewhat unexpected, findings on the thriving cult of bone...
In this dissertation I examine the arrival and growth of Jainism in Tamil Nadu, South India between ...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...
The late medieval Śvetāmbara Jain tradition has been largely understood in terms of \u27decline\u27 ...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at di...
The Life of Padma, or the Paümacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha langu...
Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid ...
Jain narrative literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Apabhraṃśa is rightly recognised as one of South...
There is a growing recognition that scholarship on Indian religions has been hampered by the lack of...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
In this book, the author presents recent, somewhat unexpected, findings on the thriving cult of bone...
In this dissertation I examine the arrival and growth of Jainism in Tamil Nadu, South India between ...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known India...
Aesthetics of Sovereignty explores how premodern religious communities employed narrative as a site...