Jaina-Prosopography Database

Flügel, Peter; Krümpelmann, Kornelius (editors)

Abstract

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process it segmented into numerous schools, sects, and lineages, which emerged and differentiated in complex interaction with local social and political configurations. The Jaina-Prosopography Database is an open access tool for the reconstruction of the social and literary history of the Jaina tradition, by cross-referencing, statistical mapping and visualising the complex data embedded in the vast corpus of Jaina manuscripts, inscriptions and published works. At the heart of the database is a comprehensive, inductively generated taxonomy reflecting the variation of historical data in the primary sources.

Citation

Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

• Online Publication Date: Mar 26, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 29, 2021
• Keywords: Jaina, prosopography, database, South Asia, religious history, social history, literary history
• Publisher URL: https://jaina-prosopography.org/
• Type of Data: Database
• Additional Information: Copyright Statement : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/; References : Flügel, Peter (2018) 'Jaina-Prosopography I: Sociology of Jaina-Names'. In: Balbir, Nalini and Flügel, Peter, (eds.), Jaina Studies. Select Papers Presented in the 'Jaina Studies' Section at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference. Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan & D.K. Publishers & Distributors, pp 187-267. Flügel, Peter (2018) 'Jaina-Prosopography II: “Patronage” in Jaina Epigraphic and Manuscript Catalogues'. In: Chojnacki, Christine and Leclère, Basile, (eds.), Gift of Knowledge: Patterns of Patronage in Jainism. Bangalore: National Institute of Prakrit Research Shravanabelagola, pp 1-46. Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius, (eds.), (2016) Jaina-Onomasticon by Johannes Klatt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Jaina Studies 1). Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (2021) Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Jaina Studies 2).