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JAIN CHURCH.
began from 22y B.C. Suhasti had 2 pupils Susthita and Supratibaddha.
12. Arya Susthita. After Suhasti, Susthita succeeded as the head of the church and remained as such for 48 years up to 214 B.C.. He was of Vyagrhâpatya gotra and a resident of Kâkandi. He lived 31 years as a householder before entering the order and remained 17 years in Samanya vrata and died at the age of 96 about 316 years after Mahavira. Previous to his period the Jain Church was known by the name of Nigrantha Gachha, but from him the name was changed to Kotika Gachha from 235 B.C.. The tradition is that the origin of the name was due to his counting Surimantra for crores (koti) of times.
13. Indradinna. He belonged to Koushika gotra. We do not find accounts of both this Acharya and his successor Dinna Suri except that they were heads of the Jain Church and that the former breathed his last 441 years after Mahavira in 86 B.C. We have seen that Arya-Susthita Suri breathed his last in 214 B.C., or according to some in 188 B.C. It may therefore be
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