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Adisvara, Santi, Nemi, Parsva, and Vira, the first, sixteenth, and last three Tirthankaras are regarded as the principal Jinas: they are more frequently mentioned than the others, and their statues are more numerous. 28
28 Besides the Tirthankaras of the present Avasarpini cycle of the world's duration,
they reckon also twenty-four each of the past and future Utsarpini renovations or cycles. Hemacandra gives the names of the whole forty-eight in the following lines:
Utsurpinyamatitayam Caturvinsatirarhatam 1
Kevaladnyani Nirvani Sagarotha “Mahayasah II 5 Vimalah “Sarvanubhutih Sridharo Datta Tirthakrt I
Damodarah 10 Sutejasca 'Svamyatho 12 Munisuvratah 11 13 Sumat ih 14 Sivagatiscaiva 15 Astagotha 16 Nimisvarah / 17 Anilo 18 Yasodharakhyah 19 Krtarghotha 20 Jinesvarah II 21 Suddhamat ih 22 Sivakarah 23 Syandanascatha 24Sampratih I Bhavinyan tu 'Padmanabhah Suradevah 'Suparsvakah II Svayamprabhasca 5Sarvanubhutir Deva 'Srutodayau I Pedhalah "Pottilascapi 10 Satak irtisca 11 Suvratuh 11 12 Amamonish 13 Kasayascaish 14 Pulakotha 15 Nirmamah 1 16Citraguptah 17 Samadhisca 18 Sanvarasca 19 Yasodharah II 20 Vijayo 4 Majla 22 Devau ca 23 Anantavir yasca 21 Bhadrakrt I Evam Sarvavasarpinyutsarpinisu Jinottamah II
---Abhidhana Cintamani, 58-70 In other lists, the 8th, 11th and 15th of the Past Age are styled Sridatta, Srisvami and Sriastaga, and the affix ji is usually added to each. To most of the names of the future Jinas the affix is nathaya namah, and the 6th, 7th, 15th, 21st and 22nd are respectively called Jivadeva, Srutodanatha, Mamanmunatha, Mallinatha and Jinadeva. See Briggs' Cities of Gujarat, p. 349.
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