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Open boundaries : Jain communities and culture in Indian history / edited by John E. Cort. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in Hindu studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jainism--History.
- Jainism.
- India--Civilization--Jaina influences.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 264 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1998.
- Contents:
- Haribhadra's analysis of Pātan̄jala and Kula yoga in the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya / Christopher Key Chapple
- Becoming Gautama : mantra and history in Śvetāmbara Jainism / Paul Dundas
- Hemacandra and Sanskrit poetics / Gary A. Tubb
- Erotic excess and sexual danger in the Cīvakacintāmaṇi / James Ryan
- Who is a king? Jain narratives of kingship in medieval Western India / John E. Cort
- Sweetmeats or corpses? Community, conversion, and sacred places / Michael W. Meister
- Ritual culture and the distinctiveness of Jainism / Lawrence A. Babb
- Śramaṇas against the Tamil way : Jains as others in Tamil Śaiva literature / Indira Viswanathan Peterson
- Jain and Hindu "religious women" in early medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr
- The story of the disappearing Jains : retelling the Śaiva-Jain encounter in medieval South India / Richard H. Davis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-9985-5
- 0-585-06970-0
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