The Change of Main Characters in Jain Carita Literature
-
- Yamahata Tomoyuki
- 北海道科学大学准教授,博士(文学)
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
-
- ジャイナ教チャリタ文学における主要人物の変遷とその背景
- ジャイナキョウ チャリタ ブンガク ニ オケル シュヨウ ジンブツ ノ ヘンセン ト ソノ ハイケイ
Search this article
Abstract
<p>Jain Carita Literature has a long tradition. The Jains had formalized their saints into Sixty-three Great Men. However, the authors of Carita works often created many biographies about saints other than the Sixty-three Great Men. This paper takes up three people, Neminātha, Bāhubalin, and Śālibhadra.</p><p>Neminātha, the 22nd Tīrthaṅkara is included in Sixth-three Great Men. But the Jain Old Gujarati works, succeeding a tradition of the Jain Caritas, emphasized the love of his fiance Rājul for Neminātha, rather than the biography of Neminātha.</p><p>Bāhubalin overwhelmed his brother, the first Cakravartin Bharata, in a battle, and underwent a conversion to Jain doctrine by his father, the first Tīrthaṅkara, Ṛṣabha. Bāhubalin is the most important character in that story.</p><p>Śālibhadra was a very wealthy merchant whose wealth outdid that of the king. But one day he realized that the king dominated him, and all people also had a master. Then Śālibhadra renounced the worldly life.</p><p>This paper proposes that the Jain authors gave these Extra-saints appropriate roles required according to the social or political situation.</p>
Journal
-
- Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu)
-
Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 68 (1), 522-516, 2019-12-20
Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Tweet
Details 詳細情報について
-
- CRID
- 1390848647545619072
-
- NII Article ID
- 130007899207
-
- NII Book ID
- AN00018579
-
- ISSN
- 18840051
- 00194344
-
- NDL BIB ID
- 030157509
-
- Text Lang
- ja
-
- Data Source
-
- JaLC
- NDL
- Crossref
- CiNii Articles
- KAKEN
-
- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed