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Half a TaleMukund Lath

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Half a Tale

A Study in the Interrelationship between Autobiography and History

by Mukund Lath · Mukund Lath (trans.)

A translation and study of the Ardhakathanak, the seventeenth-century Hindi verse autobiography of the Jain merchant-poet Banarasidas of Agra. Lath's introduction places the work in the history of Indian autobiography and of the Jain adhyatma movement inspired by Kundakunda.

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