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"This book examines the history and intellectual activity of the Svetambara Jain renunciant order, the Tapa Gaccha, in the late medieval period. It focuses in particular on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order, arguing that this was variously effected by negotiating the primacy of lineage, the posthumous divinity of one of its leaders, the validity of styles of scriptural exegesis and customary practice and the status of non-Jains through the medium of chronicles and poetry and polemical engagement with other Jain orders and dissident elements within its own ranks. Drawing on largely unstudied primary sources, the author demonstrates how Tapa Gaccha writers created a sophisticated intellectual culture which was a vehicle for the maintenance of sectarian identity in the late medieval period. The book explores issues which have been central to our understanding of many of the questions currently being asked about the development not just of Jainism but of South Asian religions in general, such as the manner in which authority is established in relation to texts, the relationship between scripture, commentary and tradition and tensions both between and within sects."--BOOK JACKET.

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