01077nam a2200157 4500 510325 510325 190811b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Milligan, Matthew D. 8114 The economic power of women in early South Asian Buddhism 2019 p.53-76. This article serves as a contribution to the financial primacy of Buddhist women in early historic South Asia. Presented here is a single case study from the first century bce monastic stūpa site from Central India called Sanchi whereby gender demographics are analysed over two subsequent stages of funding. Investments by women not only fuelled the construction of the built landscape but, as time went on, female donors were crucial to the economic solvency of the monastic institution at Sanchi. Such a micro-history of Buddhist women from classical India illustrates the agency of women during Buddhism’s formative years. - Reproduced. Social history 8115 Indian Economic and Social History Review Buddhism ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384263 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-11 56(1), Jan-Mar, 2019: p.53-76. AR119956 2019-08-11 AR