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Biographies of Rsabha and the rise of Satrunjaya Ghent University
From Ayodhya to the Dandaka : Rama's journey in exile according to the Jain Ramayanas Ghent University
In this chapter, I compare the journey of Rāma from Ayodhyā to the forest in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with the parallel episodes of the main Jain tradition of Rāma tellings. Whereas in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa spend 10 years visiting āśramas in the forest and protecting sages before settling in Pañcavaṭī, in the Jain accounts, the visits to āśramas are largely replaced with visits to cities, helping rulers in need and marrying ...
The life of Padma, volume 2 Ghent University
The fate of Kīcaka in two Jain Apabhramsha Mahābhāratas Ghent University
Epic and vernacular production in Tomar Gwalior in the fifteenth century Ghent University
The development of literature in the vernacular in fifteenth-century Gwalior has been attributed to its local rulers' intentionality at that time. The patronage of the Tomars, a Rajput dynasty, for retellings of the epics in Classical Hindi has been ascribed to a reaction to 'Muslim' sovereignty and to a desire to ascertain their 'son of the soil' credentials. This paper complicates this commonplace reduction of the motives of patronage, and ...