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INTRODUCTION
separate line of successors Here then ends the pretended unity of the Svetāmbara Church as an ecclesiastical institution; each branch ras governed by authorities of their own. Their list in the Therārali consists of distinct parts Thich do not possess the same degree of trustworthiness and the members of the Mahāgiri-line are perhaps no more than Yuga pradhānas like those described in the Prabhāvakacarita The famous teachers after Vajrasena from Kālaka down to Haribhadra whose lives have been included in the Kahāvali, are, as said above, decidedly Yuga pradhānas and have no claim to be regarded as patriarchs even in a restricted sense of the term.
After this digression we shall now inquire into the line of Suhastin The Kalpasūtra gives two redactions of the list, (1) a short one (samkhittavāyanā) and (2) a detailed one vittharavāyanā) Both lists begin with the 5th patriarch Yasobhadra and are in perfect agreement down to the 13th patriarch Vajra. and his disciple Vajrasena 1 For the reader's convenience I subjoin the list of those patriarchates
V Yaśobhadra VI Bhadrabāhu and Sambhūtavijaya VII. Sthūlabhadra VIII Vahāgiri and Suhastin IX Susthita-Supratıbuddha
X Indradinna XI Dinna. XII Simhagiri XIII Vajra.
In the shorter redaction nothing but the names of the patriarchs and their gotras are given, while the detailed redaction also enumerates the disciples of each patriarch, and mentions, in their proper places the ganas, sākkās and kulas originated by them These details are presumably based on a
1 In the short concluding part of the lists there is some disagreement and confusion which, however, need not detain us, as we are concerned here frith their main part only
| SR No. | 010713 |
| Book Title | Sthaviravali Charitra or Parisista Parva |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 467 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 12 MB |