Jaina Community a Social Survey

Author(s): Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Popular Book Depot Bombay

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Jaina Community-A Social Survey
52. Kavala 53. Khambhyata 54. Kharatara 55. Koramtavāla 56. Koshipura 57. Krshnarshi 58. Kuchora 59. Kutubapura 60. Lumpaka 61. Madhukara 62. Mamdaliya 63. Mandharana 64. Mandovara 65. Manghosha 66. Maladhora 67. Masena 68. Māthura 69. Muhasorarha 70. Muram davāla 71. Nadola 72. Nagadraha
73. Nagarakața 74. Nagaravāla 75. Nāgemdra 76. Nagori 77. Nāgapura 78. Nanavāla 79. Narhiya 80. Jithara 81. Nigama 82. Palanapura 83. Pallikiya 84. Pallivāla 85. Pañchabahali 86. Pārsvachandra 87. Pippalaka 88. Purnatalla 89. Pūrima 90. Rāmasena 91. Rangavijaya 92. Revati 93. Rudrapalliya
94. Sāgara 95. Sañchara 96. Samderaka 97. Sañjata 98. Sarasvati 99. Śaravāla 100. Särdhapunamiya 101. Sevantara 102. Siddhamta 103. Siddhapura 104. Soratha 105. Surana 106. Tanavāla 107. Tapā 108. Thambhana 109. Trengaliyā. 110. Tirbhaviya 111. Upakeśa 112. Ustavāla 113. Utabiya.36
Like Mūrtipūjaka Śvetāmbaras, the Sthanakavāsi Svetāmbaras also have been sub-divided into 32 Gachchhas.37
6. ATTEMPTS OF RECONCILIATION From the above discussion it will be seen that the Jaina Church which was one and undivided at the time of Mahāvīra has now been split up into sects, sub-sects, Samghas, Gaņas, Gachchhas, etc. Apart from the religious divisions existing at present there might have been other divisions in the past. Such divisions must have flourished in the past but it appears that they could not survive upto the present day for want of followers or some other reasons. As an instance the name of 'Yapaniya' or 'Yāpya’ Samgha can be cited. This Samgha was established by Sri Kalasa Acharya at Kalyāna town in Gulbarga District in Karnataka. Like Svetämbaras, it recognised the existence of sacred books and believed that women could attain salvation and saints could take food after attaining omniscience; but at the same time it was, like