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VBI-0235
THE HEART OF JAINISM
₹4,950
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Details
- Author
- Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson; with an introduction by the Rev. G. P. Taylor
- Year
- 1915
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Bombay
- Location
- India
- Subjects
- Jainism · Mahāvīra · Jaina scriptures and canon · Tīrthaṅkaras · Indian religions
- Edition
- Not specified
- Pages
- 336
- Size
- 9 x 6 in
Description
The Heart of Jainism by Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson, with an introduction by the Rev. G. P. Taylor, issued in the series The Religious Quest of India by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, in 1915. The photographed passages cover the Jaina canon, Mahāvīra’s initiation and fundamental doctrines, with a double-page table of the twenty-four Tīrthaṅkaras and a labelled Jaina svastika diagram. Bound in half brown leather over green cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt spine lettering and ornaments, and gilt decorative borders to the leather edges.
Condition
Good