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same score. The ones listed at number two and seven could have been identical with, or different from, our Jinacandrasüri. But we have no conclusive data to decide one way or the other.
We are further tempted to search for our Jinacandrasuri from amongst many Jinacandrasūris recorded in the Pattāvalis of the Kharatara-gaccha. But the Kharatara-gaccha is said to have emanated from the Kuceragaccha, 44 and nowhere do we find any proof to the effect that the Kharatara-gaccha night have been a sub-gaccha separated from, or operating within the framework of, the Brhad-gaccha. Although there have been a number of Jinacandrasūris in the Kharatara-gaccha, the most notable of them seems to be Maladhari Jinacandra (V. Sam. 1197-1223),45 who promulgated the rule that every fourth ācārya in his gaccha should be named
Jinacandra'. 46 He was definitely a contemporary of our Jinacandrasüri. But we are not in a position to prove the identity of both due to the difference of their gacchas and absence of any proof positive in the matter. The Identity of both these Jinacandrasūris is, moreover, rendered impossible due to the fact that Jinabhadrasuri never mentions the Kharatara-gacha even once, while he specifically mentions the Bșhad-gaccha to which our Jinacandrasuri belonged. The problem of identification cannot be resolved till we come across in future definite instances in which we find that the ācāryas of the sub-gacchas of the extensive Brbad-gaccha still owned allegiance to it and styled themselves as belonging to it.
Our Jinacandrasūri, the grand-preceptor of our author Jinabhadrasūri, should therefore remain still unidentified, and we do not have any clue to the identity of the one referred to in the Praśasti of Satīka-haima-anekārtha-samgraha in JPP, with our one.47
Even then, it is beyond doubt that our Jinacandrasūri flourished in the second half of the twelfth and the first half of the thirteenth centuries of
44. JPI, Vol. II, p. 496, ft, nt. :
वडगच्छाओ पुण्णिम पुण्णमिओ सड्ढपुण्णिमा गमिमा । दोहिं वि आगमनामो कुच्चयरामो ETTI 37 II; from Vada-gaccha emanated Purnima-gaccha in V. Sam. 1159, from Purnima emanated the Sārdha-purnima-gaccha in V. Sam. 1236 and the Agamika-gaccha in V. Sam. 1250 and from Kucera-gaccha emanated the Kharatara-gaccha in V. Sam 1204 ; also cf. op. cit. जिणदत्ताओ खरयर पुण्णिम चन्दसूरिणो जाया । पल्लवियाषाढायरिये तवोमयं देवभद्दाओ॥ which informs us about the Jaina monks who were responsible for this process of
branching off of the sub-gaccahs. 45. JPI, Vol. II, p. 447. 46. Ibid., p. 454, 47. JPPS, p. 10.
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