Jaina-Prosopography I: Sociology of Jaina Names.
Jaina-Prosopography II: 'Patronage' in Jaina Epigraphic and Manuscript Catalogues.
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School of Oriental and African Studies
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- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
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- 24708
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- Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan & D.K. Publishers & Distributors; Bangalore: National Institute of Prakrit Research Shravanabelagola
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- August
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- 2018
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- Jaina-Prosopography I: Sociology of Jaina-Names. In: Balbir, Nalini and Flügel, Peter, (eds.), Jaina Studies. Select Papers Presented in the 'Jaina Studies' Section at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference Volume 8. Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan & D.K. Publishers & Distributors, pp. 187-265. New Delhi: D. K. Publishers & Distributors
Jaina-Prosopography II: “Patronage” in Jaina Epigraphic and Manuscript Catalogues. In: Chojnacki, Christine and Leclère, Basile, (eds.), Gift of Knowledge: Patterns of Patronage in Jainism. Bangalore: National Institute of Prakrit Research Shravanabelagola, pp. 1-46
As outcomes of a research project funded by Leverhulme RPG-2016-454, Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage, the chapters present the conceptual framework of a new methodological approach in South Asian Studies.
Part I offers an analysis of the structure of Jaina names, particularly monastic names, which entail an entire sociology of the Jaina tradition, and require custom-made coding schemes to be accurately represented in a new purpose-built prosopographical database. It proposes a suitable coding scheme, based on a ‘naming formula’ for Jaina monastic ‘full names’, embracing diverse components, from the perspective of functional grammar, showing that problems of identification of individuals on the basis of composite names are similar to problems of individuation in Jaina biography and iconography.
Part II deconstructs the vagueness of the term “patronage” as a sociological category and proposes a set of analytical ‘role-types’ for coding different types of “protection and support” and shows how they can be fruitfully applied in prosopographical cross-referencing of published historical data.
The resulting database is now published at jaina-prosopography.org.
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