Purnabhadra's Pancatantra: Jaina tales or brahminical outsourcing?

Taylor, McComas

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Purnabhadra's Pancatantra: Jaina tales or brahminical outsourcing?

Date

2011

Authors

Taylor, McComas

Publisher

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Abstract

"To what extent is Pūrṇabhadra’s Pañcatantra a Jaina text, that is, one of a corpus which “narrate key Jain virtues” as Cort suggests? I will test this proposition in this paper by examining the manner in which Pūrṇabhadra’s Pañcatantra dovetails into the narrative techniques of what we might call an orthodox Sanskrit brahminical tradition."