From One Birth to AnotherThe Jaina Agamas are believed to have come down from Mahavira. Some of them even pre date him. The stories in the agamas were conceptualized as a means to convey the austere teachings of the Jainas in a more relatable, 'entertaining' manner. For the first time, Sudhamahi Regunathan has translated a selection of these and other stories from Jaina literature into English. Ranging from the funny to the tragic, each story has a lesson embedded in it. A

and finding self-confidence

to stick him with hatpins

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The life she has built depends on it

ancestral power

from who she knew herself to be and from the image that she had trapped herself in

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environmental-friendly household by providing readers with:

Shelived more years than she'd dared hope for

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yet with May-ling and her two husbands

the apocalypse looms and the world teeters on the end of forever