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Mailapa
Kandharanvaya
Cultural Milieu of Jaina Caves: Socio-economic and Religious Backdrop Honnur,
Puncagavsikśamūla 1108-09 CE Kolhapur,
Mula Desiya
Pustaka 1135 CE Kolhapur,
Yapaniya Punnagamūla-vriksha 1139 CE Kolhapur,
Müla Deśiya
Pustaka 1143 CE Desinga Borgaon,
Kareya 1150 CE Kolhapur,
Mula Desiya
Pustaka 1154 CE Mehkar, 1215 CE Tringalwadi,
Mula 1344 CE Ter,
Müla | 14th century CE Udgir,
Müla 1491 A. D Mangi-Tungi
Balatkāra
Sarasvati I-Santinatha gupha 14th-15th century CE Udgir,
Müla Balatkara
Sarasvati 1524 CE Sultanpur, date is not Kastha known. Bhose, date is not Mūla
Kānur known.
Kundakunda
Kundakunda
Mula Sangha : It is believed that the term 'Mula Sangha' was used to show the Digambaras as more authentic than the Svetāmbaras in south India (Vijayamurti 1957: 24). The earliest reference to this sangha is found in the 4th century CE record of Ganga King Madhavavarma from Karnataka, while from the 9th-10th century CE, it is referred to very frequently in a number of epigraphs. There are no references to any gana, gachha, anvaya or bali in the early records, which start appearing from the late 7th century CE (Vijayamurti 1957: 24-25). This sangha also existed in north India, north Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bengal and Bihar (Deo 1954-55: 549).
The Desiya Gana of this sangha is supposed to have originated from the monks, who stayed in the 'Deśa', the area to the east of the Sahyadris in Maharashtra, while Pustakagachha was the main gachha of this gana (Vijayamurti 1957: 45, 56). The earliest reference to Balatkara Gana is from the 11th century CE and it becomes prominent from the later half of the 14th century CE (Vijayamurti 1957: 62-63). Krānur or Kānur Gaņa is known from the late 11th to 14th century CE (Vijayamurti 1957: 59). Kondakundanvaya, named after the famous Digambara acharya Konkunda, is found independently mentioned in the inscriptions of the 8th-9th centuries CE, while it came to be associated with Mula Sangha from the mid-11th century CE (Vijayamurti 1957:46).
