The Clever Adulteress & Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain LiteraturePhyllis Emily Granoff |
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... fire . I shall be the wife of the one who enters it with me . ' ' All right . ' Which one of them will enter the fire with her ? Whose wife will she be ? " The next day she explained : " The astrologer knew with the help of a sign that ...
... fire . I shall be the wife of the one who enters it with me . ' ' All right . ' Which one of them will enter the fire with her ? Whose wife will she be ? " The next day she explained : " The astrologer knew with the help of a sign that ...
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... fire - stick into finer and finer bits of word , and investigate it over and over again , he still would not discover the fire , you cruel man ! However small he may make the pieces and how carefully he may look , he will not detect the ...
... fire - stick into finer and finer bits of word , and investigate it over and over again , he still would not discover the fire , you cruel man ! However small he may make the pieces and how carefully he may look , he will not detect the ...
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... fire of asceticism . From the blazing fire that was their asceticism , they obtained the highest radiance . True it is that the shine of gold when it is heated is brightest of all . And those princes , their bodies ablaze from the fire ...
... fire of asceticism . From the blazing fire that was their asceticism , they obtained the highest radiance . True it is that the shine of gold when it is heated is brightest of all . And those princes , their bodies ablaze from the fire ...
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 |
The Clever Adulteress & Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature Phyllis Emily Granoff No preview available - 1990 |
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