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Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (editors) (2021) Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Datasets]

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Alternative Location: https://jaina-prosopography.org/

Abstract

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process it segmented into numerous schools, sects, and lineages, which emerged and differentiated in complex interaction with local social and political configurations. The Jaina-Prosopography Database is an open access tool for the reconstruction of the social and literary history of the Jaina tradition, by cross-referencing, statistical mapping and visualising the complex data embedded in the vast corpus of Jaina manuscripts, inscriptions and published works. At the heart of the database is a comprehensive, inductively generated taxonomy reflecting the variation of historical data in the primary sources.

Item Type: Datasets
Keywords: Jaina, prosopography, database, South Asia, religious history, social history, literary history
SOAS Departments & Centres: School Research Centres > Centre of Jaina Studies
Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of History
Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of Religions & Philosophies
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
D History General and Old World > DS Asia
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
P Language and Literature > PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4450 Databases
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Copyright Statement: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2021 16:17
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/34931
Funders: Leverhulme Trust

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