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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM RAJA:
It is related that under Jinacandra Sūri III, the Brhatkharatara gaccha was given the title 'Rāja' gaccha because the Sūri converted four kings to Jainism. 189
An epigraph dated V.S. 1344 refers to it,190 and it seems to have spread in Rajputana and U.P.
RAJAKULA:
It is referred to in an inscription dated 854 A.D., on the pedestal of an image of Pārsvanātha in Kangrā Bazār.191
RAMASENIYA:
Two inscriptions dated V.S. 1458 and 1511 from Udaypur and Agra refer to this 192
RAKA:
An inscription from Siālabet from Kathiawad193 refers to it in V.S. 1320.
RUDRAPALLIYA:
It is said to have arisen out of Kharatara due to Jinasekhara194 in V.S. 1204.
Epigraphs mention it from the 13th to the 17th centuries of V.E.195
It seems to have originated at a place of the same name, and to have spread over Rajputana, U.P., and Bengal.
SADHU PURNIMA PAKSA:
It is referred to in epigraphs of the 16th century of V.E., in N. Gujarat, Bihar and Madhya Bharat.196
SAGARA;
It is stated to have originated 197 out of the Tapā gaccha due to Rājasāgara Sūri in V.S. 1686. Hence the personal name of the Súri seems to have
189. E.I., I, pp. 319-24. 190. Ibid., IX, p. 154 (Prof. PETERSON'S 5th Report, p. 109 quoted). 191. BÜHLER, E.I., I, p. 120; BHANDARKAR, List, No. 1439; GUERINOT, EJ., No. 126. 192. NAHAR, II, 1087, 1236. 193. Ibid., 1780. 194. E.I., I, p. 119. 195. NAHAR, II, 2029, of V.S. 1260. 196. Ibid., 1732 of V.S. 1504; also Nos. 1378, 1381, 1409.
197. SBM., V. ii, 1176; see also E.I., II, pp. 39, 83. BULL DCRI.-68
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