Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s1.9

c8.s1.9

After verses in praise of Vardhamāna or Mahāvīra, whose doctrine (it says) is even to-day in favour in Viśāla (? Vaiśāli), a line of holy men is named who succeeded him. They were: Gautama gaṇadhara, his personal disciple Lōhārya, Jambu,² Vishnudēva, Aparājita, Gōvardhana, Bhadrabāhu,³ Viśākha, Prōṣṭhila, Kṛittikārya, Jayanāma, Siddhārtha, Dhṛitishēna, Buddhila,⁴ and others. Bhadrabāhu-svāmi, of this illustrious succession of regularly descended great men, by his power of knowing the past, present, and future, having foretold in Ujjayini a period of twelve years of dire calamity (or famine), the whole of the *sangha* (or Jaina community) went forth from the North to the South. By degrees they had arrived at a populous and prosperous country, when the Āchārya, Prabhā- chandra by name (or (?) with Prabhāchandra also), on this mountain named Kaṭavapra, perceiving that but little time remained for him to live, in order that he might perform the penance before death, bidding farewell to them, sent away the entire *sangha*, and with one single disciple, worshipping on the cold rocks covered with grass, gained emancipation from his body.