The Universe as Audience: Metaphor and Community Among the Jains of North IndiaThis Is A Concise Narrative Of The Beginnings, History, Schisms, Social Organization And Cosmology Of The Living Jain Tradition. The Study Is Covered In 7 Chapters - Atheistic Jainism? - Textual Sources And Ethnographic Literature - The Grand Transition In Jainism: Digambar And Shvetambar As Continuity And Change - The Shvetambar `Church` - The Digambar Case Reconsidered: Contemporary Period - The Digambar Jains Of North India: Society And Religion In Baraut, Uttar Pradesh - The Kanji Swami Panth: Contestation, Cosmology And Confrontation. Condition Good. |
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Preface | 7 |
Textual Sources and Ethnographic Literature | 18 |
The Shvetambar Church | 35 |
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acarya Adi Purana anti-KSP ascetic Banks Baraut bhattaraka Bourdieu Brahman Buddhism Bundelkhand Carrithers century A.D. Chand contemporary context Cort Delhi Digambar Jain Digambar Jain community Digambar munis discourse divisions doctrine donations Dundas ethnography fordmaker gacch affiliation gotras Gujarat Hindu householder ibid India Digambar Jain initiated Jain castes Jain muni Jain religious Jain temples Jaina Jaini Jainism Jains of North Jaipur jati Jina Kanji Swami KSP followers ksullak Kundakunda laity latter lineage Maharaj Maharashtra Mahasabha Mahasamiti Mahavira mandi Meerut mendicants Moolchand Mukhtar Muni Vidyanandji Murtipujak Shvetambars Neeraj Jain neo-Digambars non-Jain North India organization Oswals pancayat pandits and tyagis Parvar prabhavana practice pratima prophet Rajasthan referred region religion religious field Reynell rituals sadhu sadhvis Sagar Sahu Sahu Jains samavasarana samuday samyak Sangha sect shahar Shikharji Shvetambar Jains social Songadh Southwold sravakas Sthanakvasi Suryakirti terapanthis texts tirthankar tradition Uttar Pradesh Varni village vows wealthy worship