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14th. c rya Devagupta S ri (II) 15th. c rya Siddha (II) 16th. c rya Ratnaprabha (IV) 17th. c rya Yak adeva (III): While plundering Mahu , the mlecchas
made him captive along with 500 other monks and large number of laity. A certain lay devotee, who converted into mleccha dharma, by some means helped crya to escape. With an apprehension that the gaccha may extinct due to the scarcity of monks, the lay devotees gave away their eleven sons to c rya, to make them ascetics. He initiated them and sent them to hada Nagara. This incident dates back to 100 years after V.N. They set up four gacchas called N gendra, Candra, Nirv tti and
Vidy dhara gacchas. 18th. c rya Karka S ri (II) 19th. crya Devagupta (III) 20th. c rya Siddha S ri (III) He did not appoint any of his disciples
as c rya, instead gave them the rank Mahattar. 21st. Mahattara Ratnaprabha S ri (V) 22nd. Mahattara Yak adeva Sri (IV): He made Nn Monk of
Samantabhadra lineage as the crya of Koram aka gaccha. After Nann c rya, one of his monk Yak adeva Sri ordained K c rya as 'S ri' and declared him as the successor of his gaccha, which was a coalition of many traditions and had no
rank like 'S ri' till then. 23rd. c rya Kakka (III), the same c rya K a mentioned above
became famous as crya Kakka III. 24th. c rya Devagupta (IV) 25th. c rya Jaya Simha 26th. c rya V radeva 27th. c rya Kakka S ri (IV) 28th. c rya Kakka S ri (V) 29th. Devagupta S ri (V) 30th. c rya Siddha S ri (V) 31st. c rya Ratnaprabha S ri (VII), one of his disciples,
Udayavarddhana merged this gaccha with “Dvivandan ka gaccha' and Tap gaccha, and named it as Tap ratna branch
( kh) 32nd. c rya Yak adeva (VI)
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