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No work of Indian literature bas perhaps enjoyed a greater popuarity in India down to date than the Rāmāyana of Vālmīki. There are many forms of the story of Rama in later Hindu works. The Jains too have their versions of the story of Rāma. This volume studies all the noteworthy Jain versions with reference to the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmiki, their areas of agreement and divergence. It also presents a literary evaluation of these versions. It could justifiably be claimed that this is the first ever comparative, comprehensive and critical study of the Jain versions as presented by the Śvetambara and Digambara poets in Prakrit, Sanskrit and Apabhraíśa languages.
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