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Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation book cover

1st Edition

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

By Gregory M. Clines Copyright 2022
180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for... Read more

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

List of Maps and Figures

1 Introduction: Jains in Rāmāyaṇa Studies and Rāmāyaṇas in Jain Studies

PART I

2 Grief, Peace, and Moral Personhood in Raviṣeṇa’s Padmapurāṇa

PART II

3 Creating Clarity: Jinadāsa Rewrites Raviṣeṇa

4 Recognizing Enemies, Internal and External: Exemplarity and the Moral Vision of Jinadāsa’s Padmapurāṇa

PART III

5 From Padma to Rām: Language and Performance in Jinadāsa’s Rām Rās

6 Performance, Audience, and Quotidian Ethics in the Rām Rās

7 Concluding Thoughts

Appendix

Index

Biography

Gregory M. Clines is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University, USA. His research focuses on early modern Digambara Jainism and Jain Rāmāyaṇa literature.

"[...] Gregory M. Clines’ monograph, Jain Ramayana Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation, provides a much-needed intervention in the study of Rāmāyaṇas. There, Clines aims to recast Jain Rāmāyaṇas as an internally diverse corpus of narratives. Each retelling responds to earlier Jain versions of the tale, as well as to a network of contemporaneous discourses. Such an argument could, of course, be proven in various ways. But given that Jainism has been misread as a religion concomitant with nonviolence and renunciation, Clines draws out the distinct visions of moral behaviour that each Jain Rāmāyaṇa constructs. He argues that each Jain retelling expresses a range of ethical values that include, but go beyond, prescriptions of nonviolent and nonattached action voiced by Jain doctrinal and commentarial texts. [...] a generative book that opens new directions for Jain Rāmāyaṇa studies." - Seema K. Chauhan, University of Oxford, UK, Reading Religion

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