Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice

Eva De Clercq; Heleen De Jonckheere; Simon Winant

doi:10.5771/9783987401602

Summary

A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is by no means a practice exclusive to them. The field of South Asian Studies has increasingly dealt with the creative engagement of authors with an authoritative literary object. Although these studies have brought to the fore important conclusions, the Jains as a literary community have remained absent from these discussions. This volume addresses this gap, highlighting the influential role of Jain authors in the multilingual literary world of South Asia. With contributions by John Brockington | Mary Brockington | Eva De Clercq | Gregory M. Clines | John E. Cort | Heleen De Jonckheere | Anna Aurelia Esposito | Basile Leclère | Anil Mundra | Shubha Shanthamurthy | Neha Tiwari | Simon Winant

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98740-159-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98740-160-2
Publisher: Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series: Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Süd- und Ostasienforschung
Volume: 13
Language: English
Pages: 277
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Heleen De Jonckheere Download chapter (PDF)
1. The Contribution of the Jains?
2. “Transcreation” and its Indian Origins
3. “Transcreation” in this Book
4. Contents of this Volume
5. 1. Primary Sources
  2. Secondary Sources
Mary Brockington, John Brockington Download chapter (PDF)
1. The Tale of Rāma the Human
2. Transcreations
3. Rāma
4. Sītā
5. Transference of Episodes
6. The Role of Jain Transcreations
7. Vimalasūri and the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa: Cross-Fertilisation and Dating
8. The Transcreation Process: Value and Values
9. Bibliography (with Abbreviations)
Eva De Clercq Download chapter (PDF)
1. Analysis of the Selected Passage
2. 1. from Vimala to Raviṣeṇa…
  2. …to Svayambhūdeva
3. 1. Primary sources
  2. Secondary sources
Gregory M. Clines Download chapter (PDF)
1. Hastimalla and his Works
2. Hastimalla in Jain Literary Studies
3. The Story of Añjanā and Pavanañjaya in Jain Caritas
4. Añjanā and Pavanañjaya in Hastimalla’s Añjanāpavanañjaya
5. Analyzing and Understanding Añjanāpavanañjaya
6. Conclusion
7. 1. Primary Sources
  2. Secondary Sources
Basile Leclère Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Literal quotations
  2. The narrative frame
  3. The allegorical system
2. 1. In search of a more coherent and readable narrative
  2. Jinamaṇḍana’s innovations
3. Conclusion
4. Abbreviations
5. 1. Primary sources
  2. Secondary sources
Simon Winant Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Auspicious Dreams in Jain Narratives
3. 1. The Births of the Pāṇḍavas in the Mahābhārata
  2. The auspicious dreams in the Pāṇḍavacarita
4. Conclusions
5. Abbreviations
6. 1. Primary Texts
  2. Secondary Texts
Neha Tiwari Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa
3. Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritamahākāvya
4. Salient Differences between the Jain Versions and Mbhv
5. Structure of Causality
6. Conclusion
7. Abbreviations
8. 1. Primary sources
  2. Secondary Sources
9. 1. The Digambara versions
  2. The Śvetāmbara versions
  3. Summary of main differences:
Shubha Shanthamurthy Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction: Tellings and Retellings of the Nēmi Story, Eighth to Sixteenth Century
2. Jalakrīḍā as a Kāvya Trope, and a Prism
3. Jalakrīḍā in the Earliest Version: An Outline
4. 1. Harivaṁśapurāṇa of Jinasēna
  2. Uttarapurāṇa of Guṇabhadra
  3. Mahāpurāṇu of Puṣpadanta
  4. Triṣaṣṭilakṣaṇamahāpurāṇam of Cāvuṇḍarāya
  5. Riṭṭhanēmicariu of Svayambhūdeva
  6. Nēmināthapurāṇa of Karṇapārya
  7. Harivaṁśābhyudayam of Bandhuvarma
  8. Nēmijinēśasaṅgati of Maṅgarasa
  9. Nēmināthacaritre of Sāḷva
5. 1. Caüppannamahāpurisacariyam of Śīlāṅka
  2. Triṣaṣṭiśalākapuruṣacaritra of Hemacandra
  3. Nēmināthamahākāvyam of Kīrtiratna
6. Conclusion
7. 1. Primary Sources
  2. Secondary Sources
Anna Aurelia Esposito Download chapter (PDF)
1. Summary of Janna’s version of “The Story of King Yaśōdhara”
2. 1. Vādirāja, the author of the Yaśodharacarita
  2. 1. The introductory verses
    2. The description of Rājapura
    3. Yaśōdhara’s feigned dream
  3. Janna’s portrayal of the main characters – the example of Amṛtamati
3. 1. Janna’s Yaśōdharacarite and Girish Karnad’s Hiṭṭina huṃja / “Bali: The sacrifice”
  2. Jīvadayāṣṭami
4. Conclusion
5. Abbrevations
6. 1. Primary Sources
  2. Secondary Sources
Anil Mundra Download chapter (PDF)
1. The Clarion Call
2. Chicago Calling
3. Repudiation
4. Reinvention
5. Reconciliation
6. Abbreviations
7. Bibliography
John E. Cort Download chapter (PDF)
1. A Note on Language: Bhasha, Old Gujarati, Old Rajasthani, Maru-Gurjar
2. “Translation” in South Asia: Anuvād, Bhāṣā Kar-, Bhāṣā √Kṛ, Bhāṣāntar, Chāyā, Tarjumā
3. Translation and Commentary
4. Genres of Medieval and Early Modern Jain Translation
5. Bālāvabodh
6. 1. 1. Prakrit to Bhasha (and Sanskrit)
  2. 2. Prakrit to Sanskrit Commentary and Translation
7. Concluding Observations: Translation in South Asian Literary History
8. 1. Primary Texts
  2. Secondary Texts
Cover Image ReferencesPages 277 - 277 Download chapter (PDF)