Literary Transcreation As a Jain Practice.

Literary Transcreation As a Jain Practice.

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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
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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.

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