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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Prabhava śrutakevalin, sthavira anagāra (anagāra), gaṇadhara (gaṇadhara) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): -30 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-557]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-526]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): -30 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 75Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-557 — -452]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 75 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-452]
Jinabhadra muni (muni), gaṇin (gaṇin), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 6 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Caitra (caitra) 1449 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1392]
  2. Birth (janma): 1450 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1393]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1461 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1404]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1489 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - Tuesday (maṅgalavāra) 9 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1511Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1433 — 1455]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 9 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1514 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1457] . Kumbhalameru
Arhaddatta ārya (ārya) Jaina monk Jaina
Susthita ārya (ārya) Jaina monk Kauṭikagaṇa
  1. Birth (janma): 243 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-284] . Kākandī
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 274 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-253]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 313 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-214]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 339 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-188] . Kumaragiri
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 313 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-214]
Supratibuddha sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 300 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-227]
Mahāgiri tapasvin, daśapūrvadhārin āryā (āryā) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 145 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-382]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 175 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-352]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 145 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 293Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-382 — -234]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 245 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-282]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 249 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-278]
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 291 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-236]
Bhadrabāhu śrutakevalin, sthavira, caudapūrvadhāra paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara), ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 94 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-433] . Pratiṣṭhānapura / Paiṭhaṇa
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 94 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 170Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-433 — -357]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 170 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-357] . Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa / Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa, Karṇāṭaka, India
Suhastin daśapūrvadhārin ārya (ārya), sādhu (sādhu) Jaina monk Vidyādharaśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 191 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-336]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 221 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-306]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 191 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 291Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-336 — -236]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 265 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-262]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 291 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-236] . Ujjayanī, Avanti / Ujjaina, Madhya Pradeśa, Mālavā, India
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 293 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-234]
Siṃhagiri jātismaraṇajñānavān, sthavira vācaka (vācaka) Jaina monk Śrīgṛhasaṃbhoga
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 470 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-57]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 547-548 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [20]
Vajra svāmin, daśapūrvin, jātismara sādhu (sādhu), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Āryavajraśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 496 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-31] . Tumbavanagrāma
  2. Birth (janma): 500 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-27]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 504 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-23]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 496 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 584Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-31 — 57]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 584 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [57] . Rathāvartagiri
Balissaha vācanācārya, daśapūrvin, sthavira sūri (sūri), gaṇācārya (gaṇācārya), vācanācārya (vācanācārya) Jaina monk Uttarabalissahagaṇa
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 329 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [273]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 329 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-198]
Ṛṣipālita sthavira Jaina monk Āryaṛṣipālitāśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 470 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-57]
Kubera Jaina monk Āryakuberāśākhā, Āryakuberāśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 470 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-57]
Ratha sthavira Jaina monk Āryajayantiśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 680 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [153]
Tāpasa Jaina monk Āryatāpasīśākhā, Āryatāpasīśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 470 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-57]
Vajrasena sthavira sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Āryanāgilāśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 492 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-35]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 501 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-26]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 492 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 620Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-35 — 93]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 620 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [93]
Indradatta sthavira ārya (ārya), gaṇācārya (gaṇācārya) Jaina monk Kauṭikagaṇa
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 320 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-207]
Puṣyagiri sthavira ārya (ārya) Jaina monk
Śāntisenika sthavira Jaina monk Uccanāgarīśākhā
Senika sthavira Jaina monk Āryasenikāśākhā
Sambhūtavijaya śrutakevalin, sthavira gaṇadhara (gaṇadhara) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 66 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-461]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 66 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 156Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-461 — -371]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 156 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-371]
Muśtākarāya Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma) Syālakoṭa
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1903 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1846]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1923 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1866] . Mandasaura / Mālvā
Hīrālāla paṇḍita Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 1894 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1837] . Vāmanolī
  2. Birth (janma): 1894 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1837]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āśvina (āśvina) 1911 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1854] . Ambālā / Ambālā, Pañjāba, India
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āśvina (āśvina) 1911 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1898] . Mālera Koṭalā / Mālera Koṭalā, Pañjāba, India
Karaṇīdāna tapasvin
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1929 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1872]
Ralārāma
Govindarāma tapasvin Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Būṭerāya prabhāvaka gādīpati (gādīpati), sādhu (sādhu) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Sikh, Nāgaramala Malūkacanda Ṭola, Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 1863 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1806] . Daluā / Dulavāṃ, Pañjāba, India
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1888 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1888Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1831 — 1831]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 15 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Caitra (caitra) 1938 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1881]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1930 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1873]
Śivadayāla paṇḍita, bahusūtrī Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma) Rohatāsa / Rohatāsa, Pañjāba, Pakistan
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1933 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1876] . Amṛtasara / Amṛtasara, Pañjāba, India
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1984 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1927] . Rāvalapiṇḍī
Rājamala Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Sthūlabhadra śrutakevalin, sthavira, caudapūrvadhāra sūri (sūri), gaṇadhara (gaṇadhara) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 116 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-411] . Pāṭaliputra
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 146 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-381]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 116 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 215Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-411 — -312]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 215 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-312] . Vaibhāragiri
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 219 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-308]
Akherāma muni Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 14 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Phālguna (phālguna) 1916 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1860]
Dharmacanda paṇḍita Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 13 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1894 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1838]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Phālguna (phālguna) 1919 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1863]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1935 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1878]
Sohanalāla yugapradhāna ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Bakhśīrāma Jaina monk Nandigaṇa
Gaṇapatarāya gaṇāvacchedaka (gaṇāvacchedaka) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya), Gaṅgārāma Jīvarāja Sampradāya
  1. Birth (janma): 3 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1906 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1849] . Pasarūra
  2. Birth (janma): 1989 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1932]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1944 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1887]
Cañcalamala Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Jayanta Jaina monk Jaina
Padmameru gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1530 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1473]
Lakṣmīcanda Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Datta sthavira ārya (ārya), vācaka (vācaka), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Kauṭikagaṇa
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 470 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-57]
Yaśobhadra śrutakevalin, sthavira, caudapūrvadhāra Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 98 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 148Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-429 — -379]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 148 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-379]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 148 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-379]
Kṛpārāma Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma) Khācarauṁda / Madhya Pradeśa
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1949 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1892]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa) Jodhapura / Jodhapura, Rājasthāna, Māravāṛa, India
Jaṛāūcanda gaṇāvacchedaka (gaṇāvacchedaka) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
Nāthūlāla bahusūtrī muni (muni) Jaina monk
  1. Birth (janma) Palāṇā/Udayapura
  2. Birth (janma): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1998 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1941] . Kharaṛ
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āśvina (āśvina) 1961 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1904]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1999 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1942] . Kharaṛ
Premacanda upādhyāya (upādhyāya), pravartaka (pravartaka), mantrī (mantrī) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 1957 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1900] . Naruvāla/Nāhana
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1976 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1919] . Ropaṛa, Pañjāb
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 15 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 2030 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1974] . Dillī
Padma Jaina monk Āryapadmāśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 620 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [93]
Sujāna paṇḍita, jīvatāraka sthavira (sthavira) Jaina monk Amūrtipūjaka
Dayārāma sādhu (sādhu) Jaina monk
Supharacanda muni (muni) Jaina monk Lāhaurī / Uttarārdha Lauṃkāgaccha (Saravāmata)
Sadānanda sūri muni (muni), paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara) Jaina monk
Arhaddatta sthavira Jaina monk Kauṭikagaṇa
Hemarāja ṛṣi muni (muni) Jaina monk Jaina
Nārāyaṇa muni (muni) Jaina monk Jaina
Bhāramalla muni (muni) Jaina monk
Vinayakalaśa vācanācārya vācanācārya (vācanācārya) Jaina monk Jaina
Kalyāṇanidhāna vācaka (vācaka) Jaina monk
Labdhicandra sādhu (sādhu), paṃnyāsa (paṃnyāsa) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1711 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1654]

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