The Tamil text Nilakeci, published between the first and fifth
centuries, deals with Jaina philosophy through the use of an
unusual literary technique: retrieving a pey, or possessing spirit
(usually a woman), from the folk tradition and casting it in a new
image. Thus a demon becomes a philosopher, for example and if that
is possible, then anyone can transform themselves into someone new,
a redeemed self, by following the Jaina tenets. This is a
profoundly subversive idea within the tradition, as is the use in
Nilakeci of a female persona to debate with the most prominent
teachers, all but one of them male, from the various schools of
thought prevalent at the time. This book places Nilakeci within a
historical context while nonetheless maintaining its status as a
singular, radical work, using translations of selected excerpts to
make a powerful case.
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