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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Padmavijaya gaṇin (gaṇin) Jaina monk Saṃvijñatapāśākhā
  1. Birth (janma): 2 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1792 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1735]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1814 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 1858Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1757 — 1801]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1805 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1748]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): Wednesday (budhavāra) 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1862 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1805]
Prabhava śrutakevalin, sthavira anagāra (anagāra), gaṇadhara (gaṇadhara) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): -30 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-557]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-526]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): -30 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 75Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-557 — -452]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 75 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [-452]
Paṇḍita yati (yati) Jaina monk Deśīgaṇa
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1320 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1398]
Puṣpamitra sādhu (sādhu), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina, Buddhist
  1. Birth (janma): 550 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [23]
  2. Birth (janma): 552 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [25]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 567 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [40]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 550 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 610/617Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [23 — 86]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 616 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [89]
  6. Death (nirvāṇa): 610/617 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [86]
Pārśvacandra paṇḍita upādhyāya (upādhyāya), paṭṭadhara (paṭṭadhara), gacchādhirāja (gacchādhirāja), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Nāgapurīyatapāgaccha, Pārśvacandragaccha, Vṛddhatapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): Friday (śukravāra) 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1537 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1480] . Hamīrapura
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1537 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1612Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1480 — 1555]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1546 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1489]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1612 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1555] . Yorapura
Puṇyasāgara gaccheśa (gaccheśa) Jaina monk Añcalagaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1817 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1760]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1833 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1776] . Bhujanagara
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1870 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1813] . Pattana / Pāṭaṇa, India
Puṣyamitra Jaina monk Digambara
  1. Birth (janma): 1152 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [625]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 720-780 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [693]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1160 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [633]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 682 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 780Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [626 — 724]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 710 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [653]
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1250 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [723]
Phalgumitra sādhu (sādhu), ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 973 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [916]
  2. Birth (janma): 1444 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [917]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1458 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [931]
  4. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1444 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) - 1520Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [917 — 993]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1049 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [992]
  6. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1520 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [993]
Padmanandin deva Jaina monk Digambara
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1298 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1376]
Premacanda upādhyāya (upādhyāya), pravartaka (pravartaka), mantrī (mantrī) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 1957 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1900] . Naruvāla/Nāhana
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1976 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [1919] . Ropaṛa, Pañjāb
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 15 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 2030 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1974] . Dillī
Phūlacanda svāmin, saṃyamasūrya upapravartaka (upapravartaka) Jaina monk Haridāsa Saṃpradāya (Pañjāba Lavajī Ṛṣi Saṃpradāya)
  1. Birth (janma): 1970 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1913] . Milagāṇā/Alavara
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 6 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1984 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1927]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 1984 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1928]
  4. Initiation (dīkṣā) Nāthā kā Nāṅgala/Sīkara / Rājasthāna
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 2 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 2058 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [2001] . Ratiyā/Fatehābāda
Pradyotana sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 150 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [93]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 698 Vīra saṃvat calendar (vīrasaṃvat) [171]
Prabhācandra siddhāntadeva, maṇḍalācārya, yogin muni (muni) Jaina monk Pustakagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1050 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1128]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1068 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1146]
Padmaprabha sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Nāgapurīyatapāgaccha, Bṛhadgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1200 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 1240Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1143 — 1183]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1240 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1184]
Pāḍivaya sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma): 1402 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1345]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1502 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1445]
Pārśvanātha Jaina monk Jaina
  1. Birth (janma) Bhelūpura-Vārāṇasī
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 65 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) [8] . Sametaśikhara
Puru paṇḍita Jaina monk Digambara
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1320 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1398]
Padmacandra upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 15 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1682 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1626]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 15 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Caitra (caitra) 1682 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 10 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āśvina (āśvina) 1744Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1626 — 1688]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Phālguna (phālguna) 1698 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1642]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 10 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āśvina (āśvina) 1744 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1688] . Vīramagāma, Gujarāta, India / Vīramagāma, Gujarāta, India
Padmatilaka sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1370-1430 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1343]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa)
Paramānanda sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1377 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1320]
Prāga ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Dariyāpurī Āṭha Koṭī Sampradāya
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1830 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1773] . Vīramagāma, Gujarāta, India / Vīramagāma, Gujarāta, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1850Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [ — 1794]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1850 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1793] . Vīsalapura / Bīsalapura, Rājasthāna, India
Puñjā ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1915Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [ — 1858]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1915 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1858] . Vardhamāna, Gujarāta / Vaḍhavāṇa, Gujarāta, India
Prasannacandra sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Nāgapurīyatapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1236 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1286Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1180 — 1230]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1286 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1230]
Pachāṇa ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Dharmadāsa Sampradāya
  1. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1768 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1712]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1814Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [ — 1757] . Ahamadābāda
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 10 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1814 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1757]
Puruṣottama śrīpūjya, śāstrakṛt muni (muni) Jaina monk Goṇḍalagaccha Moṭā Pakṣa
  1. Birth (janma): 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1943 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1886]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1948 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1891] . Māṃgaroḷa
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 5 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1943 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 13 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Kārttika (kārttika) 2017Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1886 — 1960]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 13 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Kārttika (kārttika) 2017 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1960] . Gonḍala / Gonḍala, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭra, India
Prāṇalāla saurāṣṭrakesarī muni (muni) Jaina monk Goṇḍalagaccha Moṭā Pakṣa
  1. Birth (janma): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1954 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1898]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 6 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Phālguna (phālguna) 1976 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1920] . Bagasara, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭra, India
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 5 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Śrāvaṇa (śrāvaṇa) 1954 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 13 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 2013Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1898 — 1957]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 13 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 2013 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1957] . Bagasara, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭra, India
Padmasāgara muni (muni) Jaina monk Sāgaraśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1825Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [ — 1769]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1825 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1769]
Pūnamacandra ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Kaccha Āṭha Koṭī Sampradāya
  1. Birth (janma): 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āśvina (āśvina) 1961 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1904] . Berājā / Berājā, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 1996 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1939] . Berājā / Berājā, Gujarāta, Kaccha Kanṭhī, India
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āśvina (āśvina) 1961 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 3 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 2047Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1904 — 1990]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 3 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Vaiśākha (vaiśākha) 2047 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1990] . Pratāpapura / India
Pāhinī Jaina layperson female Jaina
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1211 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1154]
Pocikabbe Householder female
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1043 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1121]
Pocāmbike Householder female
  1. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1043 Śaka calendar (north India) (śakasaṃvat (paurṇimānta)) [1121]

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