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of the Nirvana of Lord Mahavira in the history of the Jain church. They are Tisyagupta (16 years after Mahavira's Kevalihood) the acarya of the Jivapradeśikas; Aṣāḍha (214 years after Vira-nirvana) the acarya of the avyaktikas; Asvamitra (220A.V.) the acarya of the Samucchedikas, Ganga (228 A.V.) the ācārya of the dvaikriyas; Şaḍūlūka (also known as Rohagupta, 544 A. V.), the acarya of the Trairasikas; and Goṣṭhāmāhila, (584 A.V.) the ācārya of the Abaddhikas.
The Jivapradesikas held that the last space-point of the soul was the soul proper in view of the fact that the soul is incomplete and, therefore, not soul proper unless it includes its last space-point which completes its being. But they did not notice the fact that any and every space-point of the soul could be considered as the last space-point and as such they insisted on a doctrine which had no sound reasoning behind it, Tisyagupta formulated the doctrine on the basis of some texts which he failed to understand properly. The Avyaktikus were sceptics who were suspicious of everybody and so Idid not bow down to anyone. The result was that their lay disciples also began to withhold their respectful homage from them. It is said that the Avyaktikas developed this sceptic attitude after they were made to bow down to the corpse of their ācārya named Aṣādha, who reinhabited his own corpse, out of mercy, in order to bring to a speedy end the Yoga of his disciples. The Samucchedikas were those who believed in the momentariness of all things. Asvamitra was their ācārya. He misinterpreted a text and developed the doctrine. He remained quite blind to the other texts which clearly stated the permanence as well as constituting the nature of a thing. The Dvaikriyas upheld the doctrine of the possibility of the experience of two-fold actions at one and the same time. Ganga the acarya of Dvaikriyas was one day crossing a river, when he experienced both cold and heat, and jumped to the conclusion that they are felt simultaneously The Agama text, however, clearly
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