TY - BOOK AU - Lawrence A. Babb AU - Satyaranjan Banerjee TI - Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture SN - 8120815394 U1 - 294.4 B113 A PY - 1998/// CY - Delhi PB - Motilal Banarsidass Publishers KW - Religious life--Jainism KW - Jainism--Rituals N1 - Jainism is aside from Buddhism, the only surviving example of India's ancient non-Vedic religious traditions celebrated for its systematic practice of non-violence and for the rigor of the asceticism it promotes. It sheds light on a little known religious tradition and demonstrates that divine absence ER -