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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Kīrtivijaya budha gaṇin (gaṇin), vācaka (vācaka), upādhyāya (upādhyāya), mahopādhyāya (mahopādhyāya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Vijayaśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1700 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1644]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā)
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]
Nayakīrti siddhāntacakravartin Jaina monk Kundakundānvaya
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1099 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1177]
Lakṣmīsāgara sūri, tapāgacchanāyaka, yugapradhāna, tapāgacchādhirāja, prabhākara, rājādhirāja, mahābhāgyasūri sūri (sūri), gacchādhirāja (gacchādhirāja), gacchanāyaka (gacchanāyaka) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1464 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1407] . Ūmatā, Gujarat / Gujarat, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1510 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1536Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [753 — 1479] . Rājapura / Rājapura, Gujarāta, India
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1470 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1413]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1537 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1481] . Sumāhalī, Rājasthāna, Hāḍotī, India
Ratnasī paṭṭālaṅkāra ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk
  1. Birth (janma): 1632 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1575]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 13 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1648 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1591]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1632 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1686Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1575 — 1630]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1686 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1629]
Meghacandra munipa, traividyayogīśvara Jaina monk Pustakagaccha
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1037 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1115]

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