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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Padmasundara gaṇin (gaṇin), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1612 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1555]
Jinapati sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Caitra (caitra) 1210 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1153]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Phālguna (phālguna) 1218 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1161] . Śāhajahānābāda / Dillī, Delhi, India
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Caitra (caitra) 1210 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1277Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1153 — 1220]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1277 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1220] . Prahlādanapura
Deva vādin, vivādin, sarvajñadeva, sakalavādimukura muni (muni), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Caturviṃśatisūriśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 1143 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1086]
  2. Birth (janma) Maḍāhṛta, Gujarata, India
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1152 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1095]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1143 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - Thursday (guruvāra / bṛhaspativāra) 7 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1226Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1086 — 1170]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): Thursday (guruvāra / bṛhaspativāra) 7 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1226 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1169]
Kumudacandra siddhāntacakravartin, cakravartin ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Digambara
Mānadeva sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1000 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [473]
Jineśvara kharatara, syādvādinām agraṇī, suvihitamunijanamukhya muni (muni), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha, Candragaccha
Śānti sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Nāgendragaccha
Śīlaguṇa Jaina monk Āgamagaccha, Pūrṇimāgaccha
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā)
Hemaśitala Householder male Buddhist
Dharmasāgara vādin, granthakāra, tārkikacakracūḍāmaṇi, vidvān yati (yati), gaṇin (gaṇin), upādhyāya (upādhyāya), mahopādhyāya (mahopādhyāya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1579 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Kārttika (kārttika) 1653Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1522 — 1596]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1595 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1538]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Kārttika (kārttika) 1653 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1596]
Akalaṅka deva, traividyadeva, bhaṭṭa, svāmin bhikṣu (bhikkhu), muni (muni), sūri (sūri), bhaṭṭāraka (bhaṭṭāraka) Jaina monk Deśīgaṇa, Buddhist, Deśīgaṇa
  1. Birth (janma) Bhuja / Bhuja, Gujarāta, Kaccha, India
  2. Birth (janma)
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 710 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [788]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 777 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [855]
Appara Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1886 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1829]
Ānandavimala tapasvin, paṇḍita, suvihitāgraṇī sūri (sūri), agraṇī (agraṇī) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Suvihitapakṣagaccha, Vairīśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 1547 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1490]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1552 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1495]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 7 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1596 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1539]
Vijayasena kālīsarasvatī, jagadguru, savāīguru, savāīhīra, bhaṭṭārakacakravartin sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Vijayānandasūrigaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 15 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Phālguna (phālguna) 1604 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1547] . Nāradapurī
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1613 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1556] . Sūrata / Sūrata, Gujarāta, India
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1670 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1614]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 11 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1672 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1615] . Stambhatīrtha / Khambāta, Gujarāta, India
Udayaprabha deva Jaina monk Mūrtipūjaka
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1181 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1125]
Jayasiṃha sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Kṛṣṇagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1422 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1365]
Mānatuṅga sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 688 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [631]
Kanakanandin khyātayogīśvara Jaina monk Deśīgaṇa
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1085 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1163]
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]
Jayasiṃha sūri (sūri), paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara) Jaina monk Añcalagaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1179 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1122]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1180 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1123]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1193 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1136] . Tharādra / Tharāda, Gujarāta, India
Jinānanda sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 880 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [353]
Śāntisena guru, munīśa muni (muni) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1070 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1013]
Śrīgupta ācārya (ācārya), sādhu (sādhu) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 448 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-79]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 483 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-44]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 448 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 548Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-79 — 21]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 548 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [21]
  5. Death (nirvāṇa): 548 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [21]
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 584 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [57]
Samudra sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 950 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [423]
Vādisiṃha Hindu
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1150 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1093]
Vasubandhu Buddhist monk Buddhist
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 557 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) - 657 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [500 — 600]
Unknown Householder male Hindu
Unknown Jaina monk Digambara
Dharmakīrti sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 167 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [111] . Mandosara, Rajasṭhāna, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 167 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 210Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [111 — 154]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 210 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [154]
Somadeva vādin, vyākhyātṛ, kavī sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Kamalakalaśaśākhā
Abhayadeva sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Āgamagaccha
Bhadraprabha muni (muni) Jaina monk Pradhānaśākhā / Ḍhanḍheriyāśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī)
Bhārīmāla ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk
  1. Birth (janma): 1803 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1747]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā)
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 7 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1832 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1776]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1803 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1747]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 8 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1878 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1822]

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