The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty
To theorize Jain sovereignty, this essay takes up Ernst Kantorowicz’s underlying query of what happens when a king dies. In turning to medieval Jain authors such as Jinasena, we see how sovereignty and renunciation were mutually constituted such that the king’s renunciation completely subverts the p...
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MDPI AG
2021-11-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/986 |