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S. B. DEO .. .. ..
Palli
Palli
Place-name in
S. Rajputana
Sanderaka village
..
Name of a place
Pallīvāla Rāja Sandera Tapā Ūkeśa Upakeśa perhaps identical (?) Vālabha
.. .. VỊddhatapā SAKHAS:
Vairi UNCLASSIFIED:
Candrakula Pallikā (?) Pārņimā Pakşa.
A survey of these names of various ganas and gacchas as taken from the Jainapustakapraśastisangraha398 reveals a few characteristics which may be summarised as follows:
(1) Some of the gacchas seem to have originated at a particular place and hence were, possibly, named after it.
(2) A few of them came into being after a particular ācārya who gave his name to that gaccha.
(3) The distinctions of each and every gaccha, and their points of mutual difference cannot be found out in every case.
(4) Only a few of these—The Kharatara, Tapā, Sāgara and the Añcala gacchas—are in existence at present.
(5) The inscriptions, as we shall see in a later chapter, reveal a number of other gacchas besides those found in literature.
(6) There seem to have been peculiar practices of every gaccha, and we find separate books written on that account. For instance, the Vidhimārgaprapā deals with the rules of monastic life pertaining to the Kharatara gaccha.
(7) More contact with other sects seems to have influenced the ritualism of the members of the gaccha. The Vidhimārgaprapā, for instance, gives mantras like 'om, hrīm, hrām', etc. which may be the result of Tantric influence.
398. Vol. 1, published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1943,
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