ga_

7. _ye..|namo bhaga|vato mah|avirasya|_

and the translation (so far) will be,--

"Success! Adoration to the Arhat Mahavira, the destroyer(?) of the gods.
In the year of king Vasudeva, 98, in the month 4 of the rainy season, on
the day 11--on the above date ... of the chief of the school
(_ga[n.]in_) Aryya-Devadata (Devadatta) out of the school
(_ga[n.]a_) of the Aryya-Udehikiya (Arya-Uddehikiya), out of the
Parihasaka line (_kula_), out of the Ponapatrika (Paur[n.]apatrika)
branch (_['s]akha_)." [Footnote: At a later date Dr. Buehler added
other proofs from inscriptions of the authenticity of the Jaina
tradition, in the _Vienna Oriental Journal_, vol. II, pp. 141-146;
vol. III, pp. 233-240; vol. IV, pp. 169-173, 313-318; vol. V, pp.
175-180; and in _Epigraphia Indica_, vol. I pp. 371-397; vol. II,
pp. 195-212, 311. The paragraphs given above are chiefly from his first
paper in the _Vienna Oriental Journal_ (vol. I, pp. 165-180), which
appears to be an extended revision of the long footnote in the original
paper on the Jainas, but it is here corrected in places from readings in
his later papers.--J. B.]

These and many other statements in the inscriptions, about the teachers
and their schools are of no small importance in themselves for the early
history of the Jainas. The agreement of the above with the
_Kalpasutra_ can best be shown by placing the statements in question
against one another. The inscriptions prove the actual existence of twenty
of the subdivisions mentioned in the Sthaviravali of the
_Kalpasutra_. Among its eight ga[n.]as we can certainly trace three,
possibly four--the Uddchika, Vara[n.]a, Ve['s]ava[d.]iya(?) and Ko[d.]iya.

Inscriptions:--

1. Ko[t.][t.]iya (Ko[d.]iya) Gana
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Bramadasika kula Uchchenagari ['s]akha
Thaniya kula Vairi, Vairiya ['s]akha
P[a[n.]ha]vahu[[n.]aya]ku[la] Majhama ['s]akha

The Sthaviravali of the _Kalpasutra_ (_Sac. Bks. of the East_,
vol. XXII, p. 292) states that Sus[t.]hita and Supratibuddha founded the--

Ko[t.]iya or Kau[t.]aka Ga[n.]a
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