On Indian Sect of Jainas

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Jas Burgess

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5. kihadiye praja
6. tasya Pravarakasya dhitu Varaṇasya gatvakasya ma|t|uya Mitra(?)sa ...datta gå
7. ye.. Inamo bhagavato mahlavírasya
and the translation (so far) will be --
"Success! Adoration to the Arhat Mahavirâ, the destroyer(?) of the gods. In the year of king Vasudeva, 98, in the month 4 of the rainy season, on the day 11--on the above date ... of the chief of the school (gaņin) Aryya-Devadata (Devadatta) out of the school (gaņa) of the AryyaUdehikîya (Arya-Uddehikiya), out of the Parihâsaka line (kula), out of the Ponapatrika (Paurņapatrika) branch (śâkhâ)." [50]
These and many other statements in the inscriptions about the teachers and their schools are of no small importance in themselves for the early history of the Jainas. The agreement of the above with the Kalpasútra can best be shown by placing the statements in question against one another. The inscriptions prove the actual existence of twenty of the subdivisions mentioned in the Sthavirâvali of theKalpasútra. Among its eight gaņas we can certainly trace three, possibly four--the Uddchika, Varana, Veśavadiya(?) and Kodiya.
Inscriptions:
1. Kottiya (Kodiya) Gana
Uchchenâgarî śâkhâ Vairî, Vairiyâ śâkhâ
Bramadâsika kula
Thâniya kula P[aṇha) vahu[naya]
ku[la] Majhamâ śâkhâ
The Sthaviravalî of the Kalpasútra (Sac. Bks. of the East, vol. XXII, p. 292) states that Susthita and Supratibuddha founded the--
Kotiya or Kautaka Gana
kulas 1. Bambhalijja 2. Vachchhalijja 3. Vânîya or Vânîjja
sakhấs 1. Uchchanagari 2. Vijjahari
3. Vajri