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CONTENTS
Pages
Foreword Preface Transliteration Chart Abbreviations
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xiii xiv
II
CHAPTERS INTRODUCTION
16 SOURCES
7--22 Nature and importance of Jaina Literature, Jaina Puranas; the Jaina didactic literature; The Polemical Jaina literature; The Jaina colophons; Philosophical Treatises; Jaina
tantric texts and Jaina inscriptions. III IDOL WORSHIP AND TANTRISM 23-60
Prevalence of the image worship among Karnataka Jainas; Jaina Motive of worship; Forms of Jaina worship; Temple worship; Emergence of the priesthood from among the Jaina ascetics in Karnataka; Jaina goddesses and their association with tantrism.
IV
RELIGIOUS RITUALS AND PRACTICES OF THE FAINAS IN KARNATAKA 61--99 Jaina rite of the sallekhana; Initiation rituals; Charity ritual; Begging and Dietary practices; The Jaina practice of rain-retreat and severe Jaina Penance.
