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Inscriptions
from literary sources; but they all are later than the one mentioned here. He thus cannot be identified with any one of them.
3. Kakudācārya is mentioned in two inscriptions bearing the same date A.D. 1150, one in the Mahāvīra temple (Insc. 86) and the other in the Neminātha temple (Insc. 85). He also had consecrated several Jina images in the Vimala-vasahī temple at Delvādā, Mt. Abu, in A.D. 1146 but there, too, neither his gaccha nor gurvāvalī is noted. From one later inscription, however, he is known to have been connected with the Ukeśa-gaccha.
4. Devācārya, disciple of Nemicandrācārya, figures in an inscription of A.D. 1160 (Insc. 52) from Pārsvanātha temple. Perhaps he may be of Brhad-gaccha.
5. One 'Sāgaracandra gani’ figures in the inscription of A.D. 1203 (Insc. 92). At least five medieval pontiffs are known to bear that name and, one of them, had a disciple called Māņikyacandra sūri who was a literary figure contemporary of the prime minister Vastupāla (active c. A.D. 1217-1240). Our Sāgaracandra, then, could be the same as the one who was from the Rāja-gaccha.
6. About 22 early 13th century inscriptions [Insc. 53, 54, 55, 56(?), 57(?), 58, 59, 60, 61(?), 62(?), 63, 64, 65(?), 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73(?), 74(?), 75] from the Pārsvanātha temple ranging in date from A.D. 1203 to 1220 and the one on the Aștāpada in the Sāntinātha temple (Insc. 47) of A.D. 1210 mention one Dharmaghosa sūri. But his gaccha-affiliation is mentioned in none of these inscriptions, nor is there any allusion to his predecessors of his preceptorial line. Nor can he be identified with any of the four or five medieval sūris bearing the same name.
7. One Jinacandra sūri figures in the record mentioning the consecration of an image in the Under-vasahikā in Pādaparā-grāma (A.D. 1219 (Insc. 122)] as stated in an inscription from the Neminātha caitya. His gaccha affiliation is unknown. He cannot be equated with any one of the four or five till now known sūris having that appellation.
8. An inscription of A.D. 1279 (Insc. 104) in the Neminātha temple refers to one Vinayaprabha without the qualifying term 'sūri'. Since an appellation such as this is known from the later branches of the Nāgendra-gaccha, perhaps he may have been a filiate of that gaccha.
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