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called the Cāraņa gana in the Kalpasūtra;297 (2) the Kottiya gaņa,298 called the Kodiya gana in the Kalpasūtra;299 and (3) the Odehikīya300 or the Uddehikīya gana,301 called the Uddeha gana in the Kalpasūtra 302 flourished in Mathurā during the Kusāna period.303 The Kalpasūtra mentions the Mehiya kula as one of the kulas of the Vesavādiya gana.304 We find mention of the Mehika or Maighika kula in one of the Jaina inscriptions discovered at Kankālī Tīlā, Mathurā.305 This is the reason for assuming that probably, the Vesavādiya gana also existed in Mathurā during the Kusāna period.306
According to the Kalpasūtra, Śrīgupta of the Hārīta gotra founded the Cāraṇa gana, and it was divided into four sakhās and seven kulas.307 The four śākhās of the Carana gana mentioned in the Kalpasūtra are — (1) The Gavedhuyā sākhā, (2) the Hāriyamālāgārī sākhä, (3) the Samkāsiā sākhā and (4) the Vajjanāgarī sākhā.308 Three of these four säkhās of the Cārana or the Vārana gana -(1) Samkāsiā309 (2) Hāriyamālāgāri310 and (3) Vajjanāgarī:11.
295. HJM, pp. 515-18. 296. EI, X, Appendix, nos. 58, 116, etc. 297. OISJ, p. 59; HJM, p. 515. 298. EI, X, Appendix, nos. 22, 24, etc. 299. OISJ, p. 58; HJM, p. 516. 300. EI, X, Appendix, no. 76. 301. Ibid. 302. HJM, p. 517. 303. EI, X, Appendix, pp. 2 ff., nos, 54, 56, 76, 58, 116. 304. HJM, p. 518. 305. EI, X, Appendix, no. 70. 306. OISJ, p. 58; HJM, p. 518. 307. Ibid., p. 59; Ibid., p. 515. 308. Ibid.; Ibid. 309. EI, II, no. 36; HJM, p. 515. 310. EI, X, Appendix, no. 42. 311. Ibid., no. 16.
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