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They have been mentioned in hundreds of metal image inscriptions. Jinabhadra of the Kharatara gaccha is mentioned in many inscriptions of the 15th century, including one', dated V.S. 1505 and two75, dated V.S. 1509. For Jipasāgara of the same gaccha, we have dates V.S, 150976 and 1510.7' For Jinaharsha, we have inscriptions78, ranging from V.S. 1519 to V.S. 1552. He was also a prominent monk of the great Kharatara gaccha. Jayacandra of the well-known Tapā gaccha is mentioned in inscriptionsTe, ranging from V.S. 15u2 to V.S. 1506. Ratnasekhara, of the same gaccha, appears in inscriptions&o, from V.S. 1506 to V.S. 1517. And for the well-known Lakshmisägara, of the same Tapā gaccha, we have inscriptions81, ranging from V.S. 1518 to V.S. 1543. This Lakshmjsāgara was a contemporary of the great Kumbha of Mewar and we will have to say something, on this point, later in this chapter. Kakkasūri (more strictly Kakkasūri III) of the Upakeśa gaccha, was another well-known monk of the 15th century. He is mentioned in a very large number of published inscriptions. 82 He was undoubtedly one of the most influential and powerful Jain monks of the 15th century.
In the first half of the 16th century, Karmā Shāh (Karmarāja), originally a cloth merchant of Citrakūta, successfully worked for the propagation of Jainism in Gujarat. He afterwards became the chief minister of Ratnasimha, the son of Sangrāmasimha. We have a very important epigraph88, dated V.S. 1587, found from Satruñjaya, which contains a eulogy of Karma Shāh, who made the seventh restoration (saptama uddhāra) of the famous temple of Adinātha of this hill. We further learn from this epigraph that Karmā Shāh had obtained a farman from Bāhadura Shāh, king of Gujarat, who was his personal friend, which enabled him to visit Śatruñjaya. The epigraph proves that Karmarāja was intimately associated with the monks of the Tapā gaccha. The temple of Pundarikasvāmin, situated just opposite the temple of Adinātha
