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TWO PATTAVALIS OF THE SARASVATI GACHCHHA.
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the Tables. This miracle is also pointedly referred to at the end of the pattávali published by Professor Peterson.) It is, further, also called the Parijata Gachchha, apparently after the celestial tree of that name. But the reason of the name I do not know. Párijáta is also the name of the coral tree (Erythrina Indica); and as Maghanandin, the founder of the Gachchha, is said to have kept his "retreats" (vása) at the foot of a Nandi tree, the thought suggests itself, whether párijáta may not also be a synonym of that tree, so that the Gachchha would take its name from the tree of the retreat of its founder. The parallel character of all these terms as names of one Gachchha is clearly indicated towards the end of the introduction of pattâ vali A.
Though the Sarasvati Gachchha, as a distinct line of pontiffs, was really founded by Maghanandin, this pontiff, in all the pattávalis that I have seen, is always enumerated in the third place, and the Gachchha is made to begin with Bhadrabâhu II., who is the first pontiff of the line. Then follows Guptigapta, as the second pontiff, from whom, as I suppose, the line took its name of Balâtkâra Gaņa. Then comes Maghanandin himself as the third pontiff, after whom the line is called the Nandi Sangha or the Nandi Amnâya. Then comes the fourth pontiff Jinachandra ; and he is followed by Kundakunda as the fifth pontiff, from whom the line derives its name of Kundakunda Anvaya.
Lastly, the Gachchha is declared to be a branch of the Mala Sangha, that is the Original Community, founded by Mahavira himself. . The principal value of the pattåvalis, now published, is that they give complete series of dates. MS. B gives the dates of the succession of each pontiff. MS. A is even more comprehensive. It not only states the dates of saccession; bat adds, in the case of each pontiff, the number of his years before he took the vows (griha-varsha or grihastha-varsha), the number of years he lived as a simple monk (diksha-oarsha), the number of years he held the pontificate (patta-varsha or pat! astha-varsha), and lastly the number of years of his whole life (sarva-varsha or sarváyu-varsha). Professor Peterson has published a pattávali of the Sarasvati Gachchha in his Report for 1883-1884,8 but it supplies no dates whatever. Moreover it carries the succession list only down to the 92nd pontiff, Narendra Kirti, while the pattâvali now published brings it down to the 102nd. It appears to be a pattavali of what I have called the Chitôr section of the Gachchha; for though it omits Nos. 88 and 89, it agrees with the paţtâvali of MS. B in Nos. 9C-92. How the omission of Nos. 88 and 89 is to be accounted for, I do not know. This as well as all other minor divergences from Professor Peterson's list (markeủ P) are noted in the following tables.
Professor Bhandarkar has also published a portion of a Digambara patřåvall in his Report on the Search of Sanskrit MSS. for 1883-1884, p. 124, 125 (published 1887). He states that he has taken his information from a pattávali, noted as No. 629 in the Report for 1875-1876.° The portion, published by him, covers the same ground as the introduction of pattávali A now published; that is, it only goes as far as the actual commencement of the Sarasvati Gachchha. But, in some respects, his information differs from that now given, in others it is fuller. His pattÂvali must, therefore, be a different one from that of the present MS. A; if so, its fall publication would be desirable.
A Digambara pastávali is also referred to by Professor Jacobi, in the Introduction to his edition of the Text of the Kalpa Sâtre, p. 30.10 He states that it was written in Jaipur, and that it carries the succession down to Samvat 1840; from this, and the other brief particulars mentioned by him, it would seem probable that it did not materially differ from the pattávali of MS. A. Professor Bühler, indeed, informs me that it is the identical No. 629, cited by Prof. Bhandarkar, which he had temporarily brought with him from India and lent to Professor Jacobi.
* See Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Extra Number: No. XLIV. Vol. XVII. p. 168.
• See Prof. Bühler's Detailed Report of a tour in Search of Sanskrit M88., Extra Number of Journal, Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, 1877, No. XXXIV. A, Vol. XII.
19 See Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, published by the German Oriental Society; Vol. VII.
