Correlation of Jaina Inscriptions with Sthaviravalis

Author(s): U P Shah
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Jambū-jyoti
śäkha, the Sthānikiya kula, and the Śrīgṛha sambhoga. May it be for the welfare and happiness of all creatures !"
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U. P. Shah
Arya Manguhasti was the pupil of Arya Ghastuhasti and Bühler's insertion of (and) after Arya Manguhasti is not justified, since the general usage for mentioning the teacher or father of a person in inscriptions etc. is such. The insertion of the word 'and' would show that Arya Divita was a pupil of Arya Ghastuhasti.
According to the correction by Lüders in J.R.A.S., 1911, pp. 1084, 1086, read, 'the Golika' instead of the member of the committee (Gottika) and 'Koliya' (Kautika) instead of 'Kottiya' (Kauttika.)
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In the second inscription dated year 54, Lüders' correction, is read 'Koliya' instead of 'Kottiya' (Kauttika). This second inscription, on the pedestal of the image of Sarasvati, may be translated as under :
"Success! The fourth month of winter, the 10 day, on that date (specified as above), the gift of the worker in metal(iron-loha), Gova, the son of Siha, at the request of vacaka Ārya Deva (who is) convert of gani Arya Maghahasti, the pupil of vacaka Arya Hastahasti out of the Koliya (Kautika) gana, Sthānikīya kula, Vajrī Śākhā, Śrīgṛha sambhoga."
On comparing the two inscriptions, it is obvious that the Gani Arya Manguhastin, pupil of Vacaka Ghastuhasti (Arya Hastahasti) of the inscription dated in year 52 is the same as Ganin Arya Maghahasti, pupil of Vacaka Arya Hastahasti of the inscription dated Samvat 54. Gaṇa, kula, śākhā, and Sambhoga in both the cases being identical, there can be no doubt in regarding Arya Manguhasti as the same person as Arya Maghahasti. And Arya Manguhasti is the same as the Sthavira Arya Mangu of the Sthaviravali of the Nandi-sūtra1. The Nandi-sūtra-sthavirāvalī gives the parampara or succession list of the heads of the Vacaka-vamsa, who succeeded one after the other from Ganadhara Sudharma down to Dusagani (Dusya gani). In verse 26 of this Sthaviravali, we are told that Sthavira Svāti of Hārīta gotra was succeeded by Arya Śyama of Hārīta gotra. The latter is followed by Arya Sandilla (Sandilya) of Kausika gotra, succeeded by Arya Jitadhara and Ārya Samudra whose word was regarded as authority in islands and beyond the three oceans (vss. 26, 27). As I have elsewhere shown, Arya Śyāma is Ārya Kalaka of the Kālakācārya-kathās