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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Jayatilaka sūri (sūri), bhaṭṭāraka (bhaṭṭāraka) Jaina monk Ratnākaragaccha
Lakṣmīkallola paṇḍita gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk Śvetāmbara, Āgamagaccha
Vijayadeva mahātapā sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 13 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 1634 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1577]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1634 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1577]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 13 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 1634 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1713Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1577 — 1656]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Āṣāḍha (āṣāḍha) 1713 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1656] . Unnatanagara
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1681 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1624]
Dośī Jaina layperson male Jaina
Jāvaḍa sāha Jaina layperson male Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 570 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [43]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 577 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [50]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 108 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [51]
Yakṣadeva sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Upakeśagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 84 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-443]
Kakka sūri (sūri), muni (muni) Jaina monk Upakeśagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1371 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1420Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1315 — 1364]
Samara sāha Jaina layperson male Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1330-1370 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1293]
Samudra sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 950 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [423]
Rāma sāha Jaina layperson male Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1587 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1531]
Karmāśā Jaina layperson male Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1550 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1494]
Sālhāka sāha Jaina layperson male Mūrtipūjaka
Bhaṇasālī, Therū sāha Jaina layperson male Jaina
Khonā Jaina layperson male Mūrtipūjaka
Māṇikacanda sāha Jaina layperson male Mūrtipūjaka
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1819 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1762]

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Detail of 13th century Digambare image-canopy (Pratimā-vitāna) from Hiṅgalājagaṛh (Maṇḍasaur), Central Museum Indore. Photo Credit: Ingrid Schoon 23.12.2019.