2. Making it Vernacular in Agra: The Practice of Translation by Seventeenth-Century Jains

John Cort looks at how Jaina texts became subjects for discussion among a group of seventeenth-century literati who translated them. In doing so he elaborates a typology of translation (from Pearce via AK Ramanujan) that helps put into perspective many of the various interpretive moves by the re-tellers of tales discussed in the later chapters.