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200 10$aHeroic wives$b[electronic resource] $erituals, stories, and the virtues of Jain wifehood /$fM. Whitney Kelting
210   $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (265 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
330   $aAlthough in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of devotional hymns. This seems paradoxical, given that Jain spirituality is to disengage oneself from worldly existence and Jain devotionalism is usually directed toward those souls who have reached perfect detachment. In fact, however, there is a vast corpus of popular texts, many of them written by prominent scholar-monks between the 16th and 18th centuries, illustrating the distinctly worldly virtues of
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