The Knowledge of Human Marks in Jain Medieval Narratives

Apart from exegetical texts and short edifying stories, Jain monks wrote several literary narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit, or Apabhraṃśa, between the 8th and 12th centuries. While they aimed at creating works as sophisticated as Hindu kāvyas in their style and plot, they also included technical pass...

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Autor principal: Chojnacki, Ch (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Brill [2019]
En: Indo-Iranian journal
Año: 2019, Volumen: 62, Número: 1, Páginas: 62-87
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Jainismo / Literatura religiosa / Novela / Ser humano / Fisiognomía / Saber / Historia 700-1100
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AG Vida religiosa
BK Hinduismo
Otras palabras clave:B Medieval India
B human marks
B Physiognomy
B Jain novels
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Sumario:Apart from exegetical texts and short edifying stories, Jain monks wrote several literary narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit, or Apabhraṃśa, between the 8th and 12th centuries. While they aimed at creating works as sophisticated as Hindu kāvyas in their style and plot, they also included technical passages borrowed from various knowledge systems. One of them is the science of physiognomy, which deals with human marks and their interpretation. In the past decade, K. Zysk has studied this knowledge in various Hindu and Buddhist sources and proposed several hypotheses as regards the development of the science of physiognomy in India. Since passages included in the long Jain medieval narratives have not been taken into account so far, this paper aims at exploring to what extent these sources can throw further light on the gradual establishment of this knowledge system and on its channels of transmission in India.
ISSN:1572-8536
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06201002