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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON JAINA GOTRAS 125 sources from which the names of Sakhas are drawn. (For instance the Sakha of Harikelu Gotra should be 'ParyayaSamasa '). Each Sakha claiins two Gotras and this rule is observed throughout the list with the only one exception between numbers 57 and 58 as noted above. What are these Parya ya and Paryaya Samasa. According to Gommatasara (316-17 Natharangaji edition.) there are twenty kinds of Srutaknowledge-10 original and 10 more derived by the suffix of the word Samasa. Certainly these are not the names of Books like Acharanga and though now lost according to Digambara tradition. Thus forty Gotras have been covered by these twenty Prakaras of Sruta-knowledge. Further on twelve Angas cover twenty-four Gotras. The names of remaining 10 Sakhas of the P. T. have been drawn from the names of two Upangas, namely, Parikarma (with its five sub-divisions) and Sutra. But the 13 additional Sakhas of the Ms. (just given above) can hardly be explained on any literary ground. It is difficult to understand how Lesya has encroached upon the list of Sakhas. Sume of these names are found in Gommatasara, under Lesyadhikara (490-91, N. E.)
It is more than once remarked that the text as it exists is corrupt in many places. The names of Sutras from Kumbha to Sarvavijaya (1-30 P.T.) are the same as the names of Ganadharas of Lord Vrishabha--Kumbha is the second Ganadhara and the series continues. (See Punyohavachana, Pujapatha Kolhapur p. 32.) Sutras from Vrishabhasına to Gautama (31-52 P. T.) are the names of Ganad haramukhyas of twenty-four Tirthankaras. Sutras, Meru and Muniyajna (jaya Ms) I have not been able to trace anywhere, Sutras 54-57 (Nos. in P.T.) are the names of first four Srulakevalins (the ms. gives the proper order): 58-69 are the names of Mahavira's Ganadharas. Sutra-Names of numbers 63 and 64 are not correct in the P.T.. the ms. reads Maundi and Putra respectively-thus dividing the name of 6th Ganadhara (Maundiputra) for two Gotras (Nos. 63 and 64.) Name of the Ich Ganadhara is altogether left. Sutras 70 to 74 are the names of the first five Dasapuruadharins. Now coming to the additional 13 Sutras of the Ms. (given above) the first three
are the names of tee 2nd, 3rd and 4th Acharangadharins. Every Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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