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Open boundaries : Jain communities and culture in Indian history / edited by John E. Cort.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Hindu studiesPublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585069700
  • 9780585069708
Other title:
  • Jain communities and culture in Indian history
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Open boundaries.DDC classification:
  • 294.4 21
LOC classification:
  • BL1320 .O54 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other / John E. Cort 1 -- 2. Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya / Christopher Key Chapple 15 -- 3. Becoming Gautama: Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism / Paul Dundas 31 -- 4. Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics / Gary A. Tubb 53 -- 5. Erotic Excess and Sexual Danger in the Civakacintamani / James Ryan 67 -- 6. Who Is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India / John E. Cort 85 -- 7. Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places / Michael W. Meister 111 -- 8. Ritual Culture and the Distinctiveness of Jainism / Lawrence A. Babb 139 -- 9. Sramanas Against the Tamil Way: Jains as Others in Tamil Saiva Literature / Indira Viswanathan Peterson 163 -- 10. Jain and Hindu "Religious Women" in Early Medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr 187 -- 11. The Story of the Disappearing Jains: Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in Medieval South India / Richard H. Davis 213.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.

1. Introduction: Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other / John E. Cort 1 -- 2. Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya / Christopher Key Chapple 15 -- 3. Becoming Gautama: Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism / Paul Dundas 31 -- 4. Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics / Gary A. Tubb 53 -- 5. Erotic Excess and Sexual Danger in the Civakacintamani / James Ryan 67 -- 6. Who Is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India / John E. Cort 85 -- 7. Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places / Michael W. Meister 111 -- 8. Ritual Culture and the Distinctiveness of Jainism / Lawrence A. Babb 139 -- 9. Sramanas Against the Tamil Way: Jains as Others in Tamil Saiva Literature / Indira Viswanathan Peterson 163 -- 10. Jain and Hindu "Religious Women" in Early Medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr 187 -- 11. The Story of the Disappearing Jains: Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in Medieval South India / Richard H. Davis 213.

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