The Elders

The second part of the Kalpasūtra is a genealogy. Mahāvīra had eleven gaṇadharas leading nine gaṇas and four thousand two hundred monks; and, the text says, every Nirgrantha monk of the present time descends from one of them, Ārya Sudharman. From him the string runs down through thirty-nine elders — Jambū the last kevalī, Bhadrabāhu the last śrutakevalī, Sthūlabhadra, Mahāgiri and Suhastin, Vajra — to Kṣamāśramaṇa Devarddhi, under whom the canon carried in memory for nearly a thousand years was written down at Valabhī. Off the trunk, at three elders, hang the eight gaṇas of the order with their four śākhās each and twenty-seven kulas, every one named. The atlas draws it as a tree read from the crown to the root, with the text's order and gotras and only three years, marked as tradition. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.

All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.