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A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century:

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LA112322

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A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century:

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Lay Funerary Ritual according to Somasenabhattārakas Traivarnikācāra

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Paul Dundas

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Leiden

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Brill

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This paper examines the description of the funeral ritual to be performed for a lay Digambara Jain which is provided by Somasenabhattāraka in his Traivarnikācāra , written in Maharashtra in 1610. This description represents the fullest textual account hitherto available of premodern Jain mortuary ceremonial for a non-renunciant. Despite Jainism's consistent rejection of brahmanical śrāddha ceremonies intended to nourish deceased ancestors, Somasenabhattāraka clearly regards the performance of these as a necessary component of post-funerary commemoration. The paper focusses on Somasenabhattāraka's references to árāddha and the ancestors and suggests how categories deriving from brahman ritual ideology were maintained in a devalorised form in the Digambara Jain context. This paper examines the description of the funeral ritual to be performed for a lay Digambara Jain which is provided by Somasenabhattāraka in his Traivarnikācāra , written in Maharashtra in 1610. This description represents the fullest textual account hitherto available of premodern Jain mortuary ceremonial for a non-renunciant. Despite Jainism's consistent rejection of brahmanical śrāddha ceremonies intended to nourish deceased ancestors, Somasenabhattāraka clearly regards the performance of these as a necessary component of post-funerary commemoration. The paper focusses on Somasenabhattāraka's references to árāddha and the ancestors and suggests how categories deriving from brahman ritual ideology were maintained in a devalorised form in the Digambara Jain context.

Date of Publication

2011

Physical description

99-147

Title

Indo-Iranian Journal

Volume Number

54/2

International Standard Serial Number

1572-8536

Subject Term

DIGAMBARA JAINISM

Subject Term

FUNERAL

Subject Term

HINDUISATION

Subject Term

SRADDHA

Subject Term

SRAVAKACARA

Subject Term

TRAIVARNIKACARA

Paul Dundas

Call Number

10.1163/001972411X550069

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275578

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