عنوان

The Knowledge of Human Marks in Jain Medieval Narratives

شماره

LA112514

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Knowledge of Human Marks in Jain Medieval Narratives

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ch. Chojnacki

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Apart from exegetical texts and short edifying stories, Jain monks wrote several literary narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit, or Apabhraṃśa, between the 8th and 12th centuries. While they aimed at creating works as sophisticated as Hindu kāvyas in their style and plot, they also included technical passages borrowed from various knowledge systems. One of them is the science of physiognomy, which deals with human marks and their interpretation. In the past decade, K. Zysk has studied this knowledge in various Hindu and Buddhist sources and proposed several hypotheses as regards the development of the science of physiognomy in India. Since passages included in the long Jain medieval narratives have not been taken into account so far, this paper aims at exploring to what extent these sources can throw further light on the gradual establishment of this knowledge system and on its channels of transmission in India. Apart from exegetical texts and short edifying stories, Jain monks wrote several literary narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit, or Apabhraṃśa, between the 8th and 12th centuries. While they aimed at creating works as sophisticated as Hindu kāvyas in their style and plot, they also included technical passages borrowed from various knowledge systems. One of them is the science of physiognomy, which deals with human marks and their interpretation. In the past decade, K. Zysk has studied this knowledge in various Hindu and Buddhist sources and proposed several hypotheses as regards the development of the science of physiognomy in India. Since passages included in the long Jain medieval narratives have not been taken into account so far, this paper aims at exploring to what extent these sources can throw further light on the gradual establishment of this knowledge system and on its channels of transmission in India.

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

62-87

عنوان

Indo-Iranian Journal

شماره جلد

62/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-8536

اصطلاح موضوعی

human marks

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jain novels

اصطلاح موضوعی

medieval India

اصطلاح موضوعی

physiognomy

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ch. Chojnacki

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15728536-06201002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y