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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
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JAPADANA:
An inscription dated V.S. 1534 from Nagaur mentions it.107
JIRAPALLIYA :
KLATT says that it was the twelfth of the eighty-four Śākhās of Bșhad gaccha founded by Sarvadeva Sūri (S. 994).108
It is referred to in the inscriptions of the 13th and the 16th century of V.E.109
It seems to have been existing at Udaypur, Jodhpur and Lucknow.
JNABAKIYA :
It is mentioned110 in an inscription dated V.S. 1405. It was current in Rajputana, N. Gujarat, U.P., and Madhya Bharat.
JNANAKAPA:
Mentioned in an epigraph dated V.S. 1501 from Jaipur.111
[Jinabhaktisūri Sākha :
This branch finds an isolated mention112 in V.S. 1924.]
KACHOLEVALA :
It seems to have spread over Rajputana, Madhya Bharat and N. Gujarat. It was prosperous in the 15th and the 16th centuries of the same era 113
It had a 'pūrņimāpakşa' and 'dvitīyaśākhā'.114
KADUAMATI :
It is said that it was started by Kadavā, a Nāgara Bania in V.S. 1562, with the contention that "we can now-a-days get no holy sage worth the name". 115
107. NAHAR, II, 1288. 108. I.A., XXIII, p. 183. 109. NAHAR, II, 1049, 1506; GUERINOT, EJ., No. 636. 110. NAHAR, II, 1487. 111. Ibid., 1143. 112. Ibid., I, 177. 113. Ibid., II, 1930, 1382. 114. Ibid., 1966 of V.S. 1493. 115. SBM., V, ii, 133; NAHAR, I, 801 of V.S. 1683.
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