The Clever Adulteress & Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain LiteraturePhyllis Emily Granoff |
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... eating . The merchant observed all that and he understood that the boy was keeping fasts : He was an ascetic whose ... eat several hundred rations . I eat alone ; therefore I am a single eater . ' Then he calmed down and after a while ...
... eating . The merchant observed all that and he understood that the boy was keeping fasts : He was an ascetic whose ... eat several hundred rations . I eat alone ; therefore I am a single eater . ' Then he calmed down and after a while ...
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... eating right in the city , preparing himself for a pious death . The second one , Dharmayaśas , who was not longing for splendour , renounced eating in a lonely place , inside a mountain cave , on the bank of the Vatsaka river , between ...
... eating right in the city , preparing himself for a pious death . The second one , Dharmayaśas , who was not longing for splendour , renounced eating in a lonely place , inside a mountain cave , on the bank of the Vatsaka river , between ...
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... eating plenty of food , yet I don't consume even half of my meal . I really don't understand it at all . " 395 ... eat , those two young monks also came to eat , leaving footprints on the powdered ground . After the monarch had eaten and ...
... eating plenty of food , yet I don't consume even half of my meal . I really don't understand it at all . " 395 ... eat , those two young monks also came to eat , leaving footprints on the powdered ground . After the monarch had eaten and ...
Contents
Stories from the Avasyaka commentaries Nalini Balbir | 17 |
Stories from the later didactic story collections | 75 |
Friedhelm Hardy | 118 |
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The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jaina Literature Phyllis Granoff Limited preview - 1993 |
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