Early Sources of the Jaina Tradition

Early Sources of the Jaina Tradition reconstructs the history of the early Jaina tradition through a close study of the available textual sources. It focuses on Parsvanatha, one of the 24 Jinas that are identified by the Jaina tradition as its main religious leaders of the current time cycle.It is a commonly accepted hypothesis of nineteenth-century scholarship that Parsvanatha, the 23rd Jina, is ...