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three disciples of Bhadrabāhu. Generally speaking, as inferred from the further details given in the Sthavirāvali (Phase 3), in the palpably early stages of growth of the Northern Nirgrantha Church, the sub-orders of friars did sometimes originate from the confrères of the chief disciple of a pontiff : Second, what happened to the sub-orders of the Godāsa-gana; for nothing afterwards has been reported about them in the ecclesiastical or epigraphical records either, the latter largely are encountered in Mathurā. After the passage dwelling on Bhadrabāhu's disciples, the Sthavirāvali takes up Sthūlabhadra, disciple of Bhadrabāhu's confrère Arya Sambhūta and, further onwards, gives particulars of Sthūlabhadra's descendents, indeed not for once returning to Bhadrabāhu's line, an omission the significance of which later will be discussed. The hagiographical position from Arhat Vardhamāna onwards and especially after Arya Jambū—the disciple of ganadhara Sudharmāand up to Bhadrabāhu and his disciples, according to the first three phases of the Sthavirāvali of the Paryusanā-kalpa, may be tabulated as follows :
Arhat Vardhamāna (Preached c. B.C. 507-477)42
Ganadhara Gautama
Ganadhara Sudharma
Arya Jambū
Ārya Prabhava
Ārya Sayyambhava (or Svāyambhūva)
Ārya Yaśobhadra
Arya Sambhūta
Ārya Bhadrabāhu (c. B.C. 325-297)
Ārya Sthūlabhadra
Godāsa
Agnidatta
Yajñadatta
Somadatta
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