Code:
ISBN:1538-0 (cloth)
ISBN:1579-4 (paper) |
Title |
Ascetics and Kings in a
Jain Ritual Culture |
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Author |
LAWRENCE A. BABB,
Foreward by SATHYA RAJAN BANERJEE |
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Publisher |
Motilal Banarsidass
Publisher's |
| Price |
(Cloth) Rs. 225
(Papers) Rs. 125 |
Pages |
244p. illus.figs., map Biblio.,
Gloss., Index Notes |
| Jainism is aside from
Buddhism the only surviving example of India's ancient non-Vedic religious traditions
celebrated for its systematic practice of non-violence and for tile rigor of tile
asceticism it promotes. It sheds light oil a little Known religious tradition and
demonstrate that divine absence |