Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

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

Publication Info. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [1998]
©1998

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in Hindu studies
SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.
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. Story of the Disappearing Jains: Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in Medieval South India / Richard H. Davis 213.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Jainism -- History.
Jainism.
History.
India -- Civilization -- Jaina influences.
India.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Cort, John E., 1953-
Added Title Jain communities and culture in Indian history
Other Form: Print version: Open boundaries. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998 079143785X (DLC) 97046027 (OCoLC)37935219
ISBN 0585069700 (electronic book)
9780585069708 (electronic book)
079143785X (hc ; alkaline paper)
0791437868 (paperback ; alkaline paper)