The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c6.243.2

c6.243.2

The fabulous paṭṭāvali of this Gaccha probably written in the 2nd half of the 17th century,⁴ proves as an exception to the rule that these chronicles are mines of reliable dates regarding the history of Jain Orders and writings.⁵ Upakeśa is said to be the later Os near Jodhpur from where the commercial Jain caste of the Osvāl derive. A collection of the Śvet. lists in a Paṭṭavalisamuccaya has been started by Muni DARŚANA-VIJAYA (Bh. 1, Cāritrasmāraka-GM. 22. Viramgām 1933).⁶ Now it is Dharmasāgara who, in a Prakrit-Gurvāvali⁷ with an individual Sanskrit comment, notes the history of the Tapā-Gaccha who, so he says, took this name but as the sixth after that of the *nirgrantha*- and those of Koṭika-, Candra-, Vanavāsī and Vaṭa-Gaccha, altogether names which are explained in different ways. Different from two other lists presently to be mentioned, this list by starting from Uddyotana, the 35th Sūri (till s. 994), follows its own way as that of Vaṭa- or Bṛhad-G. and leads up to the 44thSūri, Jagaccandra, who equally gained fame as a reformer and as a triumphant disputant, but who as a stern fasting ascetic came to be given the surname of Tapā (*Tapā-biruda*) (s.1285)¹. Still today the Tapā-G. enjoys a high reputation. This also applies to the Kharatara-G. and others, whom to attack is a special concern of Dharmasāgara's in his work.