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Generic Name Epithet Position Religious Status Religious Affiliation Life Dates
Yaśovijaya mahopādhyāya, prakāṇḍavidvāna, nyāyaviśārada vācaka (vācaka), gaṇin (gaṇin), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Saṃvijñatapāśākhā
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1690-1740 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1658]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1688 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1631]
Hīravijaya paṇḍita, kālīsarasvatī, jagadguru, mahāprabhāvakartā, śatārthin, suvihitayatipati, vacanārādhaka, Vijayamāna sūri (sūri), gacchādhirāja (gacchādhirāja), bhaṭṭāraka (bhaṭṭāraka) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1583 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1526] . Pāhlaṇapura / Pālanapura, Gujarāta, India
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Kārttika (kārttika) 1596 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1539]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1583 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1652Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1526 — 1595]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1652 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1595] . Unnatanagara
Ratnaśekhara bālasarasvatī, tapāgacchanāyaka, tapāgaccheśa, tapāgacchādhirāja sūri (sūri), gacchanāyaka (gacchanāyaka), gacchādhirāja (gacchādhirāja), gaccheśa (gaccheśa) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1457 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1400]
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 13 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1503 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 1516Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1447 — 1459]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1463 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1406]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 6 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Pauṣa (pauṣa) 1517 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1460]
  5. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1511 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1454]
Vijayaprabha tapāgacchanāyaka sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1677 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1620] . Manoharapura, Kacchadeśa
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 11 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Māgha (māgha) 1686 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1629]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1690 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1634]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 12 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1749 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1692] . Unnatanagaraā / Unā, Hīravijayasūri Samādhi, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭra, India
Jineśvara kharatara, syādvādinām agraṇī, suvihitamunijanamukhya muni (muni), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha, Candragaccha
Somasundara tapāgacchanāyaka, gaccheśa, tapāgacchādhirāja, sakalasuvuhitapurandara, yugottamasūri sūri (sūri), bhaṭṭāraka (bhaṭṭāraka), yugapradhāna (yugapradhāna) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): Friday (śukravāra) 14 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Māgha (māgha) 1430 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1373]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1437 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1380]
  3. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): Saturday (śanivāra) 3 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1475 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - Monday (somavāra) 10 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Phālguna (phālguna) 1509Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1418 — 1453]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1499 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1442]
Samayasundara vācanācārya, kavirāya, vācanakalāvikalāniṣṇāta, tarkavyākṛtisāhityajyoti, samayatatvavid gaṇin (gaṇin), vācaka (vācaka), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1686 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1629]
Jinacandra paramavara sūri (sūri), gacchapati (gacchapati), muni (muni) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha, Kharataragaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 12 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Caitra (caitra) 1595 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1538] . Vaḍalīgrāma (near Timarīnagara)
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1604 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1547]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Āśvina (āśvina) 1670 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1613] . Venātaṭa
Dharmasāgara vādin, granthakāra, tārkikacakracūḍāmaṇi, vidvān yati (yati), gaṇin (gaṇin), upādhyāya (upādhyāya), mahopādhyāya (mahopādhyāya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1579 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Kārttika (kārttika) 1653Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1522 — 1596]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1595 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1538]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 9 Bright (śukla / śuddha) Kārttika (kārttika) 1653 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1596]
Dharmaghoṣa upādhyāya (upādhyāya), sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1357Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [ — 1300]
  2. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1302 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1245]
  3. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1357 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1300]
Devendra sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1327Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [ — 1270]
  2. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1327 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1270] . Unknown / Mālava
Hitavijaya Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1750 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1693]
Guṇavinaya gaṇin (gaṇin), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Kharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1640-1660 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1593]
Vijayaratna sakalapaṇḍitapurandara sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 1711 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1654] . Pālhaṇapura
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1711 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) - 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1773Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1654 — 1716]
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1717 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1660] . Raivataka / Giranāra, Gujarāta, Saurāṣṭra, India
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1773 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1716] . Udayapura / Udayapura, Rājasthāna, India
Vīracandra sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Añcalagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1170 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1113]
Munitilaka Jaina monk Añcalagaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1102 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1045]
Lakṣmīsāgara sūri, tapāgacchanāyaka, yugapradhāna, tapāgacchādhirāja, prabhākara, rājādhirāja, mahābhāgyasūri sūri (sūri), gacchādhirāja (gacchādhirāja), gacchanāyaka (gacchanāyaka) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha, Tapāgaccha
  1. Birth (janma): 2 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Bhādrapada (bhādrapada) 1464 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1407] . Ūmatā, Gujarat / Gujarat, India
  2. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1510 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) - 8 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Jyeṣṭha (jyeṣṭha) 1536Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [753 — 1479] . Rājapura / Rājapura, Gujarāta, India
  3. Initiation (dīkṣā): 1470 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1413]
  4. Death (mahāprayāṇa): 1537 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (south India) (vikramasaṃvat (dakṣiṇa bhārata)) [1481] . Sumāhalī, Rājasthāna, Hāḍotī, India
Dharmadeva vācaka (vācaka), upādhyāya (upādhyāya) Jaina monk Bṛhatkharataragaccha
  1. Life date (jīvanakālasaṃbandhī): 1100-1150 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata)) [1068]
Devavijaya sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
Labdhivijaya sūri (sūri) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha
Jinasoma gaṇin (gaṇin), ācārya (ācārya) Jaina monk Tapāgaccha

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