A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century:

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" A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century: "
Paul Dundas

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1068693
Doc. No	:	LA112322
Call No	:	‭10.1163/001972411X550069‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Paul Dundas
Title & Author	:	A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century: [Article] : Lay Funerary Ritual according to Somasenabhattārakas Traivarnikācāra\ Paul Dundas
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Indo-Iranian Journal
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	54/2
Page No	:	99–147
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	DIGAMBARA JAINISM
Descriptor	:	FUNERAL
Descriptor	:	HINDUISATION
Descriptor	:	SRADDHA
Descriptor	:	SRAVAKACARA
Descriptor	:	TRAIVARNIKACARA
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/001972411X550069‬