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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM BAHADA:
It is mentioned under various names like 'Bhävadahara,' 'Bhāvahedā', and 'Bhāvadaharā'. It is also likely that these were different gacchas.
Epigraphical mention is available between fourteenth and sixteenth centuries of V. S.51
It seems that it was predominant in Rajputana, Bihar and Bengal.
BAPADIYA:
It was also called 'Vāpatīya' and seems to have been current from the twelfth century of the V. S.,52 round about Jaisalmer,
BHANADEVACARYA:
It is mentioned in an inscription of V. S. 1246.53 From its name it appears that it originated after ācārya Bhānadeva.
BHARTRPURA-or 'RIYA :
It was also called 'Bhatevarā' (mod. Bharatpūr?),54 and is mentioned from the fourteenth century of V. S.
BHAVADAHARA:
See Bāhada.
BHAVAHARSA:
Mentioned in an inscription from Bālotarā. The date is partially wiped out, and only V. S. 109-can be read.55
BHINNAMALA:
Though named after a place in S. Rajputana it is found mostly in Kathiawad in the 15th and the 16th centuries of V. S.56
BOKADIYA:
It seems to have been current from the 15th century of V. S., in Nagaur, Jaipur and Kareļā (Mewar).57
51. NAHAR, III, 2228 and 2203. 52. Ibid., 2218. 53. BHANDARKAR's List, E.I., XXIII, p. 61, No. 420.
54. Ibid., No. 1533, p. 211; 816, p. 133 of V.S. 1514; JPPS, I, p. 129 of V.S. 1332; also GUERINOT, EJ., No. 642.
55. NAHAR, I, 736. 56. Ibid., III, 2295; II, 2096.
57. Ibid., II, 1246, 1169, etc. BULL. DCRI.-66
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