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S. B. DEO
- Gādahīya Śākhā:
This branch of the gaccha is referred to by HOERNLE.225
UTTARADHA :
It is referred to in an inscription dated V. S. 1680, by NAHAR.226
VADA:
It is related that a certain Yakşa asked Uddyotanasūri to appoint new Sūris for the spread of religion. As this incident happened under a Banyan tree (vada), the gaccha was named after it, and it was said to have started from Sarvadevasüri.227
The Jaina Siddhanta Bhāskara says that it originated in V.S. 994 (?).228
It is referred to in epigraphs of the 13th and the 16th centuries of V. E.229
VALABHA :
No details about it are available.230
VANAVASI :
It is said that this gaccha was started by Samantabhadra, as against the Caityavāsīs who used to live for a long time in the Caityas, i.e., temples.231
VAYADIYA :
It is mentioned232 in V. S. 1349.
VIDHIPAKSHA :
It was another name for Añcala gaccha. See Añcala.
VIDYADHARA :
It is mentioned in the 15th and the 16th centuries of V. E., in inscriptions from Kathiawad, Rajputana and U. P.233
225. op. cit., pp. 240-41. 226. Vol. I, 397. 227. SBM, V, ii, pp. 2 and 73. 228. Vol. XIV, No. ii, p. 39. 229. NAHAR, II, 1386 of V.S. 1582 from Gwalior; PJLS, II, 85 of V.S. 1293. 230. JPPS., I, p. 85. 231. SBM., V, ii, 73. 232. PILS., II, 523, 526, 527. 233. NAHAR, II, 1118 of V.S. 1411; I, 798 of 1534.
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