Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs

SR No.: 011025
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P B Desai
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 495
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA
had its divisions named Pustaka gachchba and Nandi gaņa. Again, an epigraph froin Sravaņa Belgoļa (No. 33 ) mentions a sect named Modeya Kalāpaka. The relationship of this sect with the known Samghas or their branches is not known.
TEACHERS AND THEIR PEDIGREES The epigraphs under review contain information regarding a large number of teachers or monks of the Jaina ecclesiastic order. In some cases the individual teachers alone are mentioned, while in others details regarding their spiritual lineage are furnished to some extent. These have been discussed almost exhaustively in the introductory remarks on those particular epigraphs and a few additional observations have also been made in the foregoing para. graphs of this Part. With a view to gain a collective idea of the subject-matter I would here recapitulate in a nutshell the results of our study. I shall take up the individual teachers first and then the teachers with their genealogical accounts next:
1) Jatāsinganandi of No. 20 was an eminent teacher of about the 7th century A. D. He has been identified with the namesake author of Varāngacharitum. 2) Ekachattugada Bhatāra and his disciple Sarvanandi of Kundakunda anvaya figure in No. 19. 3) Two early teachers, Vinayanandi and his disciple Nāganandi, who evidently belonged to the Balātkāra yaņa of Nandi Samgha, are mentioned in No. 46. 4) Mallishūņa and his disciple Indrasõna of the Dravida Sarngha are disclosed by No. 1. 5) Nēmichandra and his disciple Guņavīra of the Vaṁdiyūr gana and Yāpaniya Samgha are known from No. 9. 6) Nāgavīra who was associated with the same Saṁgha and gaña as above, is introduced by No. 15. 7) Rāmachandra and his disciple Prabhācha. ndra, who belonged to the Maduva gaņa of the Yāpaniya Samgha, are ushered in by Nos. 3 and 4. 8) Māghanandi who bore the epithet Siddhānta-chakravarti, figures in No. 49. 9) Mūdhavachandra who belonged to the Ingalāśvara Bali of the Müla Sangha, is noticed in No. 50. 10) Chandrasēna figures in No. 26. 11) Pujyapāda and his disciple Vidyānanda, who belonged to the Mīla Samgha, Balátkāra gana and Sarasvati gachchha, tre known from No. 14.
The following pedigrees of teachers are introduced in our epigraphs. Of these genealogical accounts some contain more details and some less :
i) Simhanandi of No. 22 belonged to Dēsiga gaņa. A succession of teachers who preceded him in the line is set forth in the record. Kalyāṇakirti appears to have been a disciple of Simhanandi.
ii) The succession of teachers enumerated in No. 2 deserves scrutiny. These teachers belonged to Dēsiya gana. This genealogy is identical in the
1 Ep. Carn., Vol. VI, Mg. 11; Vol. VIII, Nr. 36.