Literary Transcreation As a Jain Practice.

• Author: Clercq, Eva De.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jonckheere, Heleen De.; Winant, Simon.
• Place / Publishing House: Baden-Baden : : Dietrich, Dr. Hans-Jurgen, Ergon Verlag,, 2025.; ©2025.
• Year of Publication: 2025
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Introduction: Jain Transcreations and the Creativity of Similarity -- The Contribution of the Jains? -- "Transcreation" and its Indian Origins -- "Transcreation" in this Book -- Contents of this Volume -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- All Things to all Men - and Women: Rāma transcreated -- The Tale of Rāma the Human -- Transcreations -- Rāma -- Sītā -- Transference of Episodes -- The Role of Jain Transcreations -- Vimalasūri and the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa: Cross-Fertilisation and Dating -- The Transcreation Process: Value and Values -- Bibliography (with Abbreviations) -- "Life of Padma" Times Three: Telling the same Story in Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Apabhramsha -- Analysis of the Selected Passage -- Discussion: Transcreating Rāma -- from Vimala to Raviṣeṇa… -- …to Svayambhūdeva -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Heroism or Detachment: Reading Hastimalla's Añjanāpavanañjaya -- Hastimalla and his Works -- Hastimalla in Jain Literary Studies -- The Story of Añjanā and Pavanañjaya in Jain Caritas -- Añjanā and Pavanañjaya in Hastimalla's Añjanāpavanañjaya -- Analyzing and Understanding Añjanāpavanañjaya -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Kumārapāla's Wedding with Fair-Compassion: An Allegorical Story retold from Drama to Narratives -- Two Major Sources of Inspiration -- Literal quotations -- The narrative frame -- The allegorical system -- An original synthesis -- In search of a more coherent and readable narrative -- Jinamaṇḍana's innovations -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- The Auspicious Dreams of Kuntī and Mādrī in Devaprabhasūri's Pāṇḍavacarita: Turning the Pāṇḍavas into Quasi-Mahāpuruṣas? -- Introduction -- Auspicious Dreams in Jain Narratives -- Devaprabhasūri and the Pāṇḍavacarita.

The Births of the Pāṇḍavas in the Mahābhārata -- The auspicious dreams in the Pāṇḍavacarita -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- A City of Two Tales: Structure of Causality in Jain and Hindu Accounts of the Destruction of Dvārakā and the Death of Kṛṣṇa -- Introduction -- Jinasena's Harivaṃśapurāṇa -- Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritamahākāvya -- Salient Differences between the Jain Versions and Mbhv -- Structure of Causality -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary Sources -- Appendix -- The Digambara versions -- The Śvetāmbara versions -- Summary of main differences: -- A Case Study in Jaina Transcreation: Jalakrīḍā in the Nēmi Narratives -- Introduction: Tellings and Retellings of the Nēmi Story, Eighth to Sixteenth Century -- Jalakrīḍā as a Kāvya Trope, and a Prism -- Jalakrīḍā in the Earliest Version: An Outline -- Refractions in Digambara Transcreations -- Harivaṁśapurāṇa of Jinasēna -- Uttarapurāṇa of Guṇabhadra -- Mahāpurāṇu of Puṣpadanta -- Triṣaṣṭilakṣaṇamahāpurāṇam of Cāvuṇḍarāya -- Riṭṭhanēmicariu of Svayambhūdeva -- Nēmināthapurāṇa of Karṇapārya -- Harivaṁśābhyudayam of Bandhuvarma -- Nēmijinēśasaṅgati of Maṅgarasa -- Nēmināthacaritre of Sāḷva -- Refractions in Śvetāmbara Transcreations -- Caüppannamahāpurisacariyam of Śīlāṅka -- Triṣaṣṭiśalākapuruṣacaritra of Hemacandra -- Nēmināthamahākāvyam of Kīrtiratna -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- The Story of King Yaśōdhara - Processes of Transformation -- Summary of Janna's version of "The Story of King Yaśōdhara" -- Janna and his predecessors -- Vādirāja, the author of the Yaśodharacarita -- Vādirāja's Yaśodharacarita and Janna's Yaśōdharacarite -- The introductory verses -- The description of Rājapura -- Yaśōdhara's feigned dream.

Janna's portrayal of the main characters - the example of Amṛtamati -- "The Story of King Yaśōdhara" after Janna -- Janna's Yaśōdharacarite and Girish Karnad's Hiṭṭina huṃja / "Bali: The sacrifice" -- Jīvadayāṣṭami -- Conclusion -- Abbrevations -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Repudiation, Reinvention, and Reconciliation: Ātmārām and Haribhadrasūri's other Readers on other Gods -- The Clarion Call -- Chicago Calling -- Repudiation -- Reinvention -- Reconciliation -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Translation as Commentary and Commentary as Translation in Jain Literary Practice -- A Note on Language: Bhasha, Old Gujarati, Old Rajasthani, Maru-Gurjar -- "Translation" in South Asia: Anuvād, Bhāṣā Kar-, Bhāṣā √Kṛ, Bhāṣāntar, Chāyā, Tarjumā -- Translation and Commentary -- Genres of Medieval and Early Modern Jain Translation -- Bālāvabodh -- Jain Practice of "Translation" and "Commentary" -- 1. Prakrit to Bhasha (and Sanskrit) -- 2. Prakrit to Sanskrit Commentary and Translation -- Concluding Observations: Translation in South Asian Literary History -- Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- Cover Image References.