Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey
Government, army, economy (agriculture, crafts, trade), society (castes, family, women, education, dress, food, festivals), geography from Jaina Āgamas and commentaries.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Jagdish Chandra Jain
- Extent
- 5,545 passages, 154,955 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., Bombay: New Book Company 1947; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections… · In copyright (Jagdish Chandra Jain †1993); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 21 parts
- c2 Preface — 19 parts
- c3 Sources — 35 parts
- c4 Contents — 19 parts
- c5 Section I: Introduction to the Jain Canon — 27 parts
- c6 Section II: Administrative Organisation — 10 parts
- c7 Introduction — 13 parts
- c8 Chapter IV: Military Organisation — 11 parts
- c9 Section III: Economic Aspects — 65 parts
- c10 Section IV: Social Conditions — 2 parts
- c11 Chapter III Position of Women — 9 parts
- c12 Introductory — 27 parts
- c13 Chapter V: Arts and Sciences — 9 parts
- c14 Chapter VI: Religious Conditions — 16 parts
- c15 Chapter VII: Manners and Customs — 4 parts
- c16 Section V: Geographical Material in the Jain Canons — 2 parts
- c17 Chapter II the Jain Aryan Countries — 7 parts
- c18 General Outlook — 11 parts
- c19 Chapter I: Jain Conception of the World — 2,485 parts
- c20 Section VI: Some Important Kings and Dynasties — 47 parts
- c21 Retrospect — 15 parts
- c22 Index I — 33 parts
- c23 Index II — 61 parts