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In the Bettigola list they are omitted, and the successor of Jambuswami 

 is there named Verasina, who may have been, as Mr. Colebrooke 

 remarks, a hundred degrees removed. The lists, subsequently, vary 

 according to the particular line of descent to which they belong. 



Of these persons, the second Srutakevali is reputed to be the author 

 of the Dasavaikalikd, one of the standard works of the sect. Suhasti, the 

 second Dasapurvi, was the preceptor of Samprati Raja, and the fourth 

 Susthita, founded the Kote gachcha, or tribe. Vajraswam! the last, 

 established a particular division called the Vdjra Sakha. 



Of the succeeding teachers, or Suris, the title borne by the spiritual 

 preceptors of the Jams, Chandras^ri the second, is the founder of the 

 family of that name, eight hundred and nine years, it is said, after the 

 emancipation of Mahavira. In his time, it is stated, the Digambaras 

 arose; but we have seen that they were at least cotemporary with Maha- 

 v!ra. 



The 38th on the list, from Mahavira inclusive, Udyotana StjRi first 

 classed the Jains under eighty-nine Gachchas. The 40th Jineswari who 

 lived A. D. 1024, founded the Khertara family.* With the 44th ; Jinadatta 

 originated the Osiual family, and the Madhyalchertara branch ; he was a 

 teacher of great celebrity, and impressions of his feet in plaster or on stone 

 are preserved in some temples, as at Bhelupur in Benares ; he lived in 1148. 

 Other divisions, either of a religious or civil nature, are attributed to 

 various teachers, as the Chitrabala Gachcha to Jinapati Suri, in A. D. 1 149 ; 



* Major Tod gives a somewhat different account of the origin of this tribe. KJiartra, he says 

 means true, an epithet of distinction which was bestowed by that great supporter of the Buddhists 

 or Jains, Sidraj, King of Anhidwara Paten, on one of the branches Gachcha, in a grand religious 

 disputation at the capital, in- the eleventh century. The accounts are by no means incompatible, and 

 my authority represents Jineswari victorious in a controversy. 



