Jain Journal 1984 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JULY, 1984
within chrysalises constituted by Jaina Samgha which had been created by their earlier schools internal member-monks.
Such affiliated schools fall into two sub-groups; one in which the germs out of which the chrysalis schools had been created by the internal members of the apparented Jaina communities of monks has been indigenous to these 'apparented' Jaina communities, and another in which those germs had been alien from them. The fourth group consists of schools which were related to earlier schools by looser tie of having derived their religious thoughts and ideas, etc. from these earlier schools' external members. In the fifth place, we find schools which, so far as we could see, were not related to any earlier schools by any tie, however, tenuous.
On the geographical criterion, we may classify various schools of Jaina Samgha in the Acarya periods into four groups ; first, schools whose original home lay wholly within the original home of earlier school ;? second, schools, whose original home lay wholly within the widest range which some earlier school had eventually attained, but not wholly within the area, which that earlier school had occupied originally;8 third, schools, whose original home lay partly within the widest range
3 e.g. Nirgrantha Gaccha to Tapa Gaccha and Lonka Gaccha to Terapanthi
school, and different Sakhas of Tapa Gaccha among the Svetambara Sampradaya. And principal Ganas of Mula Samgha-Deva Gana, Sena Gana, Desiya Gana, Surastha Gana, Kranura Gana, Balatkara Gana, etc. and different Sakhas of Balatkara Gana, Karanja Sakha, Latura Sakha up to Giranara Sakha, different Sakhas of Kastha Samgha, Mathura Gaccha, LadaBagada, Punnata Gaccha fall into this group. e.g. Kharatara Gaccha and Lonka Gaccha in the Svetambara Sampradaya and Yapaniya Samgha, Kurcaka Samgha, Dravida Samgha, Gauda Samgha, etc. on the Digambara side fall into this second group because those germs of their rise had been altered from the affiliated schools due to local spatial and temporal conditions. e.g. Upakesa Gaccha. It traced its origin to the Parsvanatha's sect by a loose tie of having derived their religious thoughts and ideas, etc. from Parsva sect. Yapaniya samgha, Kurcaka Samgha, Dravida Samgha, Gauda Samgha, Bhillaka Samgha, Jambukhanda Gana, Sunhavura Gana, Pancastupanikaya, Bisapanthi, Terapanthin, Taranapanthin, Gumanapanthin, etc. of the Digambaras. Vajra sect (Samvegi sect) etc. of the Svetambaras. Mula Samgha, Svetapata Mahasramana Samgha, Nirgrantha Mahasramana Samgha. Sakhas of Mula Sangha-Deva Gana, Sena Gana, Samgha Gana Balatkara Gana. Tapa Gaccha, Kharatara Gaccha, Lonka Gaccha, Sthanakavasi, Terapanthi etc, of the Svetambara. Deva Gana, Sena Gana, Simha Gana, Balatkara Gana,
and its Sakhas, Kastha Samgha and its different Sakhas. . Different Sakhas of Balatkara Gana. Different Sakhas of Kastha Samgha.