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• Gender

  • Female (strī) (3,718) [x]
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• Marital Status

  • Divorced (talāqaśudā) (3)
  • Married (vivāhita) (1,175)
  • Unmarried (avivāhita) (569)
  • Widowed (vaidhavya) (542)
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• Title

  • Doctor / PhD (13)
  • MA (2)
  • MSc (1)
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• Honorific / Epithet all

  • bāi (3)
  • bālabrahmacārin (1)
  • bhuvanakhyātā (1)
  • cāndrasanīyā (1)
  • devī (53)
  • gaṇinī (15)
  • gantiyar (1)
  • guru (1)
  • mahattara (1)
  • mahattarā (16)
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• Byname all

  • abhora maṃḍī (1)
  • ahamadābāda (4)
  • ahamadagaṛha (1)
  • asāḍhā (1)
  • badanīkalāṃ (1)
  • baiṃgalora (3)
  • bakhatagaṛha (1)
  • bambaī (1)
  • bambū (1)
  • barāra (3)
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• Clan all

  • Bhābhū (Bhābhū) (1)
  • Bhaḍāara (Bhaḍāara) (3)
  • Bhānḍāvata (Bhānḍāvata) (2)
  • Bohittharā (Bohittharā) (1)
  • Botharā (Botharā) (1)
  • Brahmāṇa (Brahmāṇa) (1)
  • Bṛharaṃja (Bṛharaṃja) (2)
  • Caṇḍa (Caṇḍa) (1)
  • Candra (Candra) (1)
  • Cauhāna (Cauhāna) (1)
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• Caste all

  • Brāhmaṇa (Brāhmaṇa) (1)
  • Buraḍa (Buraḍa) (1)
  • Dalīya (Dalīya) (2)
  • Dīsāvāla (Dīsāvāla) (11)
  • Gūrjara (Gūjara) (6)
  • Gūrjara (Gūrjara) (5)
  • Huṃbaḍa (Huṃbaḍa) (29)
  • Jaina Brāhmaṇa (Arhaddvija) (Jaina Brāhmaṇa (Arhaddvija)) (1)
  • Jālaharā (Jālaharā) (2)
  • Mahatīyāṇa (Mahatīyāṇa) (2)
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• Caste Division all

  • Bhorāṇakīya (Bhorāṇakīya) (1)
  • Daśa (Dasa) (2)
  • Gūgalīśākhā (Gūgalīśāṣā) (1)
  • Kāpardi (Kāpardi) (2)
  • Laghuśākhā (Laghuśākhā) (2)
  • Maguḍīyā (Maguḍīyā) (7)
  • Moḍha (Moḍha) (11)
  • Pāḍalīyā (Pāḍalīyā) (2)
  • Vīsa (Vīsa) (9)
  • Vṛddhaśakhā (Vṛddhaśakhā) (8)
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• Social Class

  • Brāhmaṇa (Brāhmaṇa) (1)
  • Kṣatriya (Kṣatriya) (2)
  • Vaiśya (Vaiśya) (59)
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• Family Lineage

  • Culukīśvara (Culukīśvara) (1)
  • Kautsa (Kautsa) (1)
  • Kuyā (Kuyā) (1)
  • Maṇḍovarā (Maṇḍovarā) (2)
  • Muhateyāṇa (Muhateyāṇa) (3)
  • Śrī (Śrī) (10)
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• Family Occupation

  • Carpenter (vardhaki) (8)
  • Cloth merchant (kapaṛā vyāpārī) (6)
  • King (rāja) (1)
  • Merchant (śreṣṭhin) (6)
  • Merchant (vyāpāri) (2)
  • Soldier (sainika) (1)
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• Family Relationship all

  • Adopted son (dattakaputra) (2)
  • Brother (bhāī) (33)
  • Daughter (beṭī) (6)
  • Daughter (putrī) (164)
  • Daughter in law (bahū) (38)
  • Daughter in law (pūtravadhū) (17)
  • Daughter in law (snuṣā) (2)
  • Elder brother's wife (sister in law) (bhābhī) (18)
  • Elder brother's wife (sister in law) (bhojāī) (2)
  • Elder sister (baṛī bahin) (6)
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• Birth Date all

  • 1210 – 1219 (2)
  • 1220 – 1229 (1)
  • 1370 – 1379 (1)
  • 1380 – 1389 (1)
  • 1850 – 1859 (1)
  • 1860 – 1869 (2)
  • 1870 – 1879 (5)
  • 1880 – 1889 (11)
  • 1890 – 1899 (15)
  • 1900 – 1909 (36)
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• Birth Place all

  • Amalanera, India / Amalanera, India (1)
  • Aṅjāra, Gujarat, India / Aṅjāra, Kaccha Kanṭhī (1)
  • Bāroī, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India (5)
  • Berājā / Berājā, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India (2)
  • Bhīnāsara / Bhīnāsara, Gujarāta, Kaccha, India (1)
  • Bhīnāsara, Rājasthāna, India (1)
  • Bhinsarā / Bhinsarā, Gujarāta, Kaccha, India (1)
  • Bhuja / Bhuja, Gujarāta, Kaccha, India (7)
  • Bhujapura / Bhujapura, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India (5)
  • Borāvaṛa, Rājasthāna, India (1)
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• Religious Status

  • Brahmacāriṇī (brahmacāriṇī) (1)
  • Householder female (gṛhastha kī patnī) (60)
  • Jaina layperson female (śrāvikā / upāsikā) (1,454)
  • Jaina layperson male (śrāvaka / upāsaka) (4)
  • Jaina monk (sādhu / muni) (10)
  • Jaina nun (sādhvī / āryikā) (2,128)
  • Kṣullikā (kṣullikā) (3)
  • Non-Jaina mendicant (1)
  • Samaṇī (samaṇī) (1)
  • Unknown (unknown) (1)
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• Monastic Position all

  • agragaṇya (agragaṇya) (1)
  • agragaṇyā (agragaṇyā) (21)
  • gaṇinī (gaṇinī) (36)
  • gaṇinī āryikā (gaṇinī āryikā) (7)
  • kṣullikā (kṣullikā) (12)
  • mahattarā (mahattarā) (25)
  • mumukṣu (mumukṣu) (3)
  • pravartinī (pravartinī) (44)
  • sādhu (sādhu) (4)
  • samaṇī (samaṇī) (2)
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• Monastic Relationship fewer

  • *Performer of the initiation rite (dīkṣāpradātā) (1)
  • Dharmaputra (dharmaputra) (1)
  • Fellow disciple of the same guru (gurubhrātṛ) (1)
  • Fellow member of a mendicant tradition (sadharma) (3)
  • Female disciple (antevāsiṇī) (1)
  • Female disciple (śiṣyā) (588)
  • Female teacher (guruṇī) (92)
  • Granddaughter disciple (praśiṣyā) (10)
  • Grandmother teacher (dādīguruṇī) (2)
  • Greatgrandfather teacher (paradādāguru) (6)
  • Junior fellow disciple of the same guru (choṭā gurubhāī) (1)
  • Male disciple (śiṣya) (1)
  • Male teacher (guru) (33)
  • Younger sister (choṭī bahina) (1)
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• Religion

  • Hindu (1)
  • Jaina (2,414)
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• Denomination

  • Digambara (33)
  • Pārśvanāthāpatyīya (1)
  • Śvetāmbara (2,117)
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• Sect Tradition

  • Amūrtipūjaka (157)
  • Kāṣṭhāsaṃgha (3)
  • Kauṭikagaṇa (1)
  • Mūlasaṃgha (4)
  • Mūrtipūjaka (1,960)
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• Sect all

  • Añcalagaccha (229)
  • Bhāvadāragaccha (1)
  • Bṛhadgaccha (1)
  • Candragaccha (1)
  • Deśīgaṇa (3)
  • Dharmasiṃgha Sampradāya (28)
  • Harṣapurīyagaccha (2)
  • Jīvarāja Sampradāya (9)
  • Kauṭikagaṇa (2)
  • Kharataragaccha (596)
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• Sect Branch all

  • Amarasiṃha Sampradāya (9)
  • Balātkāragaṇa (1)
  • Bhīmapallīyaśākhā (2)
  • Brahmaliptakakula (1)
  • Bṛhatkharataragaccha (577)
  • Caitragaccha (1)
  • Dariyāpurī Āṭha Koṭī Sampradāya (28)
  • Gujarātīlauṃkāgaccha (5)
  • Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya) (2)
  • Laghukharataraśākhā (1)
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• Sect Sub Branch

  • Brahmaliptakula (1)
  • Gujarātī Loṅkāgaccha Nānā Pakṣa (1)
  • Jinaraṅgasūriśākhā (2)
  • Kaccha Āṭha Koṭī Sampradāya (27)
  • Koraṇṭagaccha (2)
  • Rāmasenānvaya (3)
  • Sāgaracandrasūriśākhā (2)
  • Vṛddhaśākhā (1)
  • Vṛddhatapāgaccha (6)
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• Sect Sub Sub Branch

  • Aryaśrīkāsaṃbhoga (2)
  • Jinamāṇikyasūri (1)
  • Kaccha Āṭha Koṭī Nānā Pakṣa (27)
  • Śrīgṛhasaṃbhoga (1)
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• Institution all

  • Abhaya Jain Library, Bikānera (1)
  • Abhaya Jaina Granthālaya Saṃgraha, Bikānera (4)
  • Agaracanda Nāhaṭā Saṃgraha (4)
  • Anantanātha Jaina Mandira, Māṃdavī, Mumbaī (5)
  • B. J. Institute of Learning and Research Ahmedabad (1,065)
  • Dānasāgara Saṃgraha, Bikānera Bṛhadajñānabhaṇḍāra (2)
  • Gokuladāsa Nānajī Gāṃdhī, Rājakota (1)
  • Government of India (52)
  • Gulābakumārī Library, Kalkata (1)
  • Jaina Association of India, Mumbai (2)
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• Institution Type

  • Government Institution (52)
  • Modern Library (7)
  • Private Research Institute (1)
  • Shelter / Hall for mendicants (1)
  • Temple (6)
  • Traditional Library (24)
  • University (1,074)
  • research (1)
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• Role all

  • Appointee (padasthāpita) (1)
  • Attendee (upasthita) (2)
  • Author (kartā) (13)
  • Buyer (kretā) (1)
  • Celebrator (dātā) (2)
  • Co-establisher (sahasthāpaka) (3)
  • Co-organizer (sahasaṃgaṭhanakartā) (1)
  • Companion (sahacārī) (1)
  • Compiler (saṃkalanakartā) (12)
  • Consecrator of a building or material object (pratiṣṭhāpaka) (72)
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• Event all

  • Award of doctorate degree (PhD) (śaiṣika upādhi) (2)
  • Birth (janma) (337)
  • Completing fasting (vratodyāpaṇa) (1)
  • Death (mahāprayāṇa) (8)
  • Death (mṛtyu) (24)
  • Death (nirvāṇa) (24)
  • Death (prāṇotsarga) (2)
  • Death memorial construction (stūpanirmāṇa) (1)
  • Death memorial installation (stūpasthāpanā) (1)
  • Donation (dāna) (3)
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• Object all

  • Amount of sorghum or corn (hāela) (1)
  • Añcalagaccha (Añcalagaccha) (1)
  • Bhaṭṭārakapada (bhaṭṭārakapada) (1)
  • Bliss / Welfare (śreyas) (243)
  • Death memorial (samādhi) (1)
  • Death memorial (stūpa) (1)
  • Doctrine (dharma) (2)
  • Educational centre (gurukula) (2)
  • Epithet (biruda) (1)
  • Family bliss / welfare (kuṭumbaśreyārtha) (21)
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• Event Place all

  • 72 Jinālaya Kodāya / Koḍāī, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India (2)
  • Adeyarenāḍu (1)
  • Ahimadanagara / Ahamadābāda (1)
  • Ajayameru / Ajamera, Rājasthāna, India (7)
  • Amalanera, India / Amalanera, India (1)
  • Aṇādarā / Aṇādarā, India (2)
  • Aṅjāra, Gujarat, India / Aṅjāra, Kaccha Kanṭhī (2)
  • Arbuda (1)
  • Baṛaudā / Vaḍodarā, Gujarāta, India (1)
  • Berājā / Berājā, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India (5)
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• Catalogue

  • Kapadia 1935 (17)
  • Kapadia 1936 (1)
  • Kapadia 1940 (11)
  • Kapadia 1952 (6)
  • Kapadia 1962 (1)
  • Kapādiā 1967 (4)
  • Kobā(1.1.13)2012 (2)
  • Schubring 1944 (2)
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• Genre all

  • Avacūri (1)
  • Avacūrṇi (1)
  • Bālabodha (1)
  • Bālāvabodha (3)
  • Bhāṣya (1)
  • Biographical poem (1)
  • Canonised text (13)
  • Canonised text with ṭīkā (1)
  • Catalogue (275)
  • Compilation (8)
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• Language all

  • English (88)
  • English & Sanskrit (1,117)
  • Gujarati (205)
  • Gujarati & Prakrit (2)
  • Hindi (1,370)
  • Old Gujarati (70)
  • Prakrit (18)
  • Prakrit & Gujarati (3)
  • Prakrit & Sanskrit (2)
  • Rajasthani (1)
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• Script

  • Devanāgarī (1,043)
  • Gujarātī (166)
  • Jaina Devanāgarī (12)
  • Kannaḍa (5)
  • Roman & Devanāgarī (1,117)
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