Apart from exegetical texts and short edifying stories, Jain monks wrote several literary narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit, or Apabhraṃśa, between the 8th and 12th centuries. While they aimed at creating works as sophisticated as Hindu kāvyas in their style and plot, they also included technical passages borrowed from various knowledge systems. One of them is the science of physiognomy, which deals with human marks and their interpretation. In the past decade, K. Zysk has studied this knowledge in various Hindu and Buddhist sources and proposed several hypotheses as regards the development of the science of physiognomy in India. Since passages included in the long Jain medieval narratives have not been taken into account so far, this paper aims at exploring to what extent these sources can throw further light on the gradual establishment of this knowledge system and on its channels of transmission in India.

除了训ege文字和简短的寓言故事外，mon那教的僧侣在8至12世纪之间在梵语，普拉克利特语或Apabhraṃśa写作了几种文学叙事。尽管他们的目的是创作风格和情节如印度教卡维亚人一样复杂的作品，但他们还包括从各种知识体系中借来的技术文章。其中之一是相貌学，涉及人的标记及其解释。在过去的十年中，K。Zysk在印度教徒和佛教徒的各种文献中研究了这一知识，并提出了有关印度面相科学发展的几种假设。由于迄今为止尚未考虑到Ja那教长篇中世纪叙述中的段落，