Purnabhadra's Pancatantra: Jaina tales or Brahmanical outsourcing?

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    Abstract

    "To what extent is Pūrṇabhadra's Pañcatantra a Jaina text, that is, one of a corpus which "narrate key Jain virtues" as Cort suggests? I will test this proposition in this paper by examining the manner in which Pūrṇabhadra's Pañcatantra dovetails into the narrative techniques of what we might call an orthodox Sanskrit brahminical tradition."
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-17
    JournalInternational Journal of Jaina Studies
    Volume7
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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