Mendicants and Medicine: Āyurveda in Jain Monastic Texts
While early canonical Jain literature may well justify the assessment that some scholars have made about the Jains’ stoic resistance to medical aid, later post-canonical Śvetāmbara Jain texts reveal in fact a much more complex relationship to practices of healing. They make frequent references to me...
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University of Alberta
2014-12-01
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| Series: | History of Science in South Asia |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/4 |