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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Kāna ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Lauṃkāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 8 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1779Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [ — 1722]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 8 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1779 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1722]
Saṃghavī, Govinda Jaina layperson male Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1696 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1639]
Somavimala śatārthin, aṣṭāvadhānī sūri (sūri), upādhyāya (upādhyāya), gaṇin (gaṇin), gacchādhipati (gacchādhipati) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1570 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1514] . Kaṃsārī, Gujarata, Khaṃbhāta, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1574 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1618/1637Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1518 — 1570]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1574 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1517]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1637 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1580]
Vijayakṣamā sūri (sūri), gacchanāyaka (gacchanāyaka) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1732 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1675] . Pālī / Pālī, Rājasthāna, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1780 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1723]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1739 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1682] . Pālī / Pālī, Rājasthāna, India
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 13 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1784 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1727] . Māṃgaroḷa
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1785 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1728] . Diva
Vijayadayā sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1799 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1742]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 7 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1809 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1752] . Dhorājī, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭrā, India
Mahānanda muni (muni) Jaina monk Śiśumata
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1809 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1753]

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