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called the Cāraņa gaña in the Kalpasūtra;297 (2) the Kottiya gaņa,298 called the Kodiya gaña in the Kalpasūtra;299 and (3) the Odehikīya3w or the Uddehikīya gana 301 called the Uddeha gana in the Kalpasūtra 302 flourished in Mathurā during the Kusāna period 303 The Kalpasūtra mentions the Mehiya kula as one of the kulas of the Vesavādiya gana 304 We find mention of the Mehika or Maighika kula in one of the Jaina inscriptions discovered at Kankālī Tīlā, Mathurā.305 This is the reason for assuming that probably, the Vesavādiya gaņa also existed in Mathurā during the Kuşāņa period.306
According to the Kalpasūtra, Śrīgupta of the Hārīta gotra founded the Cāraņa gana, and it was divided into four sakhās and seven kulas.307 The four sākhās of the Cārana gana mentioned in the Kalpasūtra are -- (1) The Gavedhuyā śākhā, (2) the Hāriyamālāgārī sākhā, (3) the Saṁkāsiā sākhā and (4) the Vajjanāgarī sākhā.308 Three of these four sākhās of the Cārana or the Vārana gana - (1) Samkāsiā309 (2) Hāriyamālāgārī310 and (3) Vajjanāgarill.
295. HJM, pp. 515-18. 296. EI, X, Appendix, nos. 58, 116, etc. 297. OISJ, p. 59; HJM, p. 515. 298. EI, X, Appendix, nos. 22, 24, etc. 299. OISJ, p. 58; HJM, p. 516. 300. EI, X, Appendix, no. 76. 301. Ibid. 302. HJM, p. 517. 303. EI, X, Appendix, pp. 2 ff., nos, 54, 56, 76, 58, 116. 304. HJM, p. 518. 305. EI, X, Appendix, no. 70. 306. OISJ, p. 58; HJM, p. 518. 307. Ibid., p. 59; Ibid., p. 515. 308. Ibid.; Ibid. 309. EI, II, no. 36; HJM, p. 515. 310. EI, X, Appendix, no. 42. 311. Ibid., no. 16.
