Paul Dundas
Honorary Fellow
- Asian Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: P.Dundas@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Research summary
- Jainism
- Middle Indo-Aryan philology
- Classical Sanskrit literature and literary theory
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The Killing of Shishupala
(832 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Floods, Taxes and a Stone Cow: A Jain Apocalyptic Account of the Gupta Period
(15 pages)
In:
South Asian Studies, vol. 30, pp. 230-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2014.962341
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Neglected Śvetāmbara Narrative Collection, Hemacandrasūri Maladhārin's Upadeśamālāsvopajñavṛtti: Part 1 (With an Appendix on the Funeral of Abhayadevasūri Maladhārin)
In:
International Journal of Jaina Studies, vol. 9, pp. 1-47
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Textual Authority in Ritual Procedure: The Śvetāmbara Jain Controversy Concerning Īryāpathikīpratikramaṇa
In:
Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 39, pp. 327-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-011-9129-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Digambara Jain Samskāra in the Early Seventeenth Century: Lay Funerary Ritual according to Somasenabhattāraka's Traivarnikācāra
(49 pages)
In:
Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 54, pp. 99-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/001972411X550069
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
How Not To Install An Image Of The Jina: An Early Anti-Paurṇamīyaka Diatribe
(23 pages)
In:
International Journal of Jaina Studies, vol. 5, pp. 1-23
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Sthūlabhadra's Lodgings: Sexual Restraint in Jainism
(19 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
- "Some Svetambara Jain Narrative Collections from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, with Particular Reference to the 'Other Hemacandra' ", School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, March 2011.
- "Sex, Caste and Death in Seventeenth Century Digambara Jainism", Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, April 2011.