Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian HistoryJohn E. Cort Enlarges our understanding of Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions, by challenging the standard scholarly portraits of both Jains and South Asian religion and culture. |
Contents
Introduction Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other | 1 |
Haribhadras Analysis of Pātanjala and Kula Yoga in the yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya | 15 |
Becoming Gautama Mantra and History in Śvetāmbara Jainism | 31 |
Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics | 53 |
Erotic Excess and Sexual Danger in the Cīvakacintāmai | 67 |
Who Is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India | 85 |
Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community Conversion and Sacred Places | 111 |
Ritual Culture and the Distinctiveness of Jainism | 139 |
Śramaṇas Against the Tamil Way Jains as Others in Tamil Śaiva Literature | 163 |
Jain and Hindu Religious Women In Early Medieval Tamilnadu | 187 |
The Story of the Disappearing Jains Retelling the ŚaivaJain Encounter in Medieval South India | 213 |
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Contributors | 257 |
Index | 258 |
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ācārya ascetic Babb bhakti Brāhmaṇas Brāhmaṇical Brahmans Buddhist cakravartin Campantar century Cōla Cort deity described devotee Dhaky Digambara donors Gaccha Gautama goddess guṇasthānas Haribhadra Hemacandra Hindu religious women Hindu temple women Hinduism hymns ibid identity interaction Jain and Hindu Jain authors Jain community Jain mendicants Jain monks Jain narratives Jain religious women Jain ritual Jain temples Jain tradition Jaina Jainism Jayasimha Jina Kalabhra kalyāṇaks karma king kingship Kṛṣṇa Kula Kumārapāla liberation literature Madurai Mahāvīra mantra medieval Tamil inscriptions medieval Tamilnadu Meister Merutunga Mūlarāja Nāyaṇārs non-Jain offering Osiāñ Pallava Patañjali poetics practice Prakrit pūjā reference religion rite ritual culture role Sacciyāmātā saints Saiva Śaiva Siddhanta Śaivism Sanskrit śāstras scholars sectarian shrine Siddhanta Śiva SMKS snātra South Asian South India story sūri sūrimantra Śvetāmbara Tamil inscriptions Tamil Jains Tamil Śaiva Tamilnadu Tantric teacher Tēvāram tion Tirthankar Tiruttakkatēvar Vaiṣṇava Vanarāja Veda Vedic verse worship Yoga