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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Jaina schools. 1. Pattāvali of the Kharatara gaccha (Inscr. No. 17). 2. Pattāvali of the Tauā gaccha (Inscr. No. 12). 3. Pattāvali of the Arcala or Vidhipaksa gaccha (Inscr. Nos. 21 and 27). 4. Pattāvali of the Sagara gaccha (Inscr. No. 91). 5. Pattāvalı Digambara (Inscr. No. 30). Religious issue of Kundakunda, of
the Sarasvati gaccha.
B. Laic sects.
1. Oswāls, with three principal subdivisions : VỊddhaśākhā, Laghuśākha,
and Addaišākhā.
2. Śrīmalis, comprising the two branches Vrddhasākhā and Laghuśākhā.
XIV. Further Jaina inscriptions from Mathura. G. BÜHLER. Facsimiles, text and translation of 41 inscriptions proceeding from the excavations of Dr. FÜHRER. at Mathura. The results furnished by the study of these inscriptions, concerning the history of the Jainism, are the following:
1, The Jains were established at Mathura before the 2nd century of the Christian era.
2. There existed at Mathura, in 167 A.D., an ancient Jaina stupa the real origin of which was forgotten.
3. The inscriptions mention: of one part, the Vacchaliya Kula and the Vidyādhāri Sakha of the Kottiya (Kotika) gana; of another part, the Nātika Kula and the Samakāsiyä Sakha of the Vāraņa gana.
XVIII. Duhkund stone Inscription of the Kachchhapa ghata KIELHORN.
Vikramasimhar. F.
Text and study of an inscription in Sanskrit, of Samvat 1145, discovered at Dubkund. It recalls the foundation and the endowment of a Jaina temple, by the prince Vikramasimha, of the Kacchapaghāta family.
XIX. Pabhasa Inscriptions. A. FÜHRER. Pabhasā is a village at the south-east of Allahabad. It possesses a modern Jaina temple and three statues carved in the rock, of naked Jinas. A grotto, equally hollowed in the rock, contains two inscriptions probably Jainas, which commemorates the origin of them,
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