Code
01D05119
Duration
01 December 2019 → 30 November 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Indian languages
- Other Asian literatures
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
South-Asian Religions
Jainism
Hinduism
Sanskrit literature
religious identity
Mahābhārata
Project description
Jainism, a living minority religion in India, has its own tradition of Jain adaptation of the Hindu Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata. This project intends to compare Jain adaptions of Kīcakavadha-episode of the Mahābhārata epic. Do most Jain authors follow the earliest Jaina adaptation of the Kīcaka-episode, in which the sexual predator Kīcaka is redeemed as Jain monk, or not?