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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Municandra gaṇanātha, tārkikaśiromaṇi, bālabrahmacārin sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Bṛhadgaccha
  1. Birth (janma) Darbhāvatī, Gujarat, India / Dabhoī, Gujarat, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Kārttika (kārttika) 1178Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [ — 1121]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā)
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Kārttika (kārttika) 1178 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1121]
Munisundara kālīsarasvatī, vādigokulasaṇḍa, śyāmasarasvatī, tapāgaccheśa, sahastrāvadhānī sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1438 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1381]
  2. Birth (janma): 1436 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1379]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1499 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - Sunday (ravivāra / itavāra) 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1501Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1443 — 1444] . Vaḍalī, Gujarat, India / Gujarat, India
  4. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1443 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1386]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1503 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1446] . Koraṭātīrtha, India
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Kārttika (kārttika) 1503 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1446] . Koraṭātīrtha, India
Bhadrabāhu śrutakevalin, sthavira, caudapūrvadhāra paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara), ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 94 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-433] . Pratiṣṭhānapura / Paiṭhaṇa
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 94 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 170Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-433 — -357]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 170 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-357] . Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa / Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa, Karṇāṭaka, India
Jinaprabha ghūrṇasarasvatī, pratyakṣasarasvatī sūri (sūri), paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara) Jaina monk Laghukharataraśākhā
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1326 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1269]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1385 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1328]
Jñānasāgara sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1405 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1348]
  2. Birth (janma): 1404 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1347]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1417 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1360]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1405 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 1460Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1348 — 1403]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1460 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1403]
Śrītilaka ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Pūrṇimāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1296 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1239]
Jinalabdhi guru, kūrcālasarasvatī, yatīśvara, aṣṭāvadhānī sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1400 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1343]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1406 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1349] . Nāgapura
Nemicandra sādhu (sādhu), gaṇin (gaṇin), sūri (sūri), paṇḍita (paṇḍita) Jaina monk Bṛhadgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1129 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 1169Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1072 — 1112]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā)
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1169 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1112]
Jinakuśala nānādādā, dādojī sūri (sūri), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1337 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1280] . Samiyāṇāgrāma
  2. Birth (janma): 1330 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1273]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1347 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1290]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1337 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Phālguna (phālguna) 1389Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1280 — 1332]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Phālguna (phālguna) 1389 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1332] . Derāura
Jayacandra kṛṣṇasarasvatī, tapāgacchanāyaka, tapāgaccheśa, bhāratī sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1502 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1505Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1445 — 1448]
Pradyumna sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina, Candragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 920 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [863]
Devagupta kavī, śāstrajña, siddhāntapāragāmī sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Upakeśagaccha
Mānadeva sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina, Candrakula
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 940 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [883]
Nemicandra saiddhāntikaśiromaṇi gaṇin (gaṇin), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1135-1150 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1085]
Dayāsāgara paṇḍita gaṇin (gaṇin), vācanācārya (vācanācārya) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha, Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1511 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1557Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1455 — 1501]
Jñānaśīla gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk
Kapūravijaya paṇḍita gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk Vijayaśākhā
Kanakasundara upādhyāya (upādhyāya), gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
Lālavijaya muni (muni) Jaina monk Vijayaśākhā
Bhīma paṇḍita muni (muni), gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk
Sāha, Kānhā Jaina layperson male
Mahimarāja gaṇin (gaṇin), vācanācārya (vācanācārya) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1511 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1455]
Dharmaratna sūri (sūri), ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Jaina, Dhaṃdhūkāpakṣa

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