Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

7/1/1983 - 6/30/1985

Funding Totals

$22,000.00 (approved)
$21,902.00 (awarded)


Jaina Debates On The Salvation Of Women: Texts and Translations

FAIN: RL-20370-83

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Padmanabh S. Jaini (Project Director: June 1982 to October 1990)

To support preparation of a critical edition and translation of selected Sanskrit texts from the sixth century A.D. recording a debate between the two major sects of Jainism on the possibility of women attaining spiritual salvation.