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THE JAINA GAZETTE one of us is acquainted with the last five names but I have not been able to trace the sources of 74-79.
All the seventyone Pravaras have been taken from the twelve verses of the 1st Sata and two verses of the 2nd Sata of the Sahasranama * composed by Jinasena; the additional 13 Pravara-names are found in the first three verses of Sthavishtha Sala.
Of the eighty four names of Gotras, I have been able to trace the source of some about thirty names only. They are found in the lists of names of Yakshas, of Fathers of Tirthankaras, of Kuladharas, of Chakravartins, of Baladevas, of Vasudevas and of Rudras. Sometimes the same name is present in more than one place. Many of the names of Gotras sound like the names of Vidyadharas and I think many of them can be found in Mahapurana of Jinasena.
To conclude, the materials, and of which the list of Gotras with their Pravaras, Sutras and Sakhas is made, have a close relation with, if not their sources in, Prathamanuyoga and Ritualistic literature. So far as our knowledge of history of Jaina literature goes, we do not know whether the Anga works were ever treated as the special properties of this or that family as the list of Sakhas seems to indicate.
Translation of The Deva, Sastra
and Guru Puja.
BY (C. R. Jain, Vidya-Varidhi). Aum! Victory ! Victory! Victory to the Jinendra! I salute Theell salute Thee ! I salute Thee.
Salutation to the Arbanta! Salutation to the Siddha ! Salutation to the Acharya ! Salutation to the Upadhyaya ! Salutation to the sad hus all!
# So far as I know there are three Sahasranams, one (a part of Mabapurana) by Jinasena, another by Asadhara apd & third one
Laghu sahasranama of some unknown author, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
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