Kragh, Ulrich Timme2019-09-252019-09-252013-12-1720131748-1074http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/197953The article critically discusses the underlying principles for the writing of literary history. It rejects a universalized model and proposes a new approach of "localized literary history" that is theoretically rooted in metahistorical concepts of "textory" and "sub-text". The method takes its starting point in local text-collections rather than national literature. With the Jain Āmer Śāstrabhaṇḍhār repository in Jaipur as a point of departure, it is demonstrated how a study of a local manuscript collection reveals a literary history, which cannot be encountered by the universalized approach.engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)JainismReligious ethicsArticle