Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4457

c6.4457

(EI 7, 9, 11; SII 1; BL), a school or spiritual line; a pontificate; a pontifical seat; the dignity of the head of a Jain school; cf. reference to a Jain religious teacher as belonging to the paṭṭa of another teacher and the santāna of a third teacher; cf., e. g., ‘in the paṭṭa of Dharma-sūri’; also cf. ‘paṭṭ-āvalī of the Kharatara gaccha’.