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Ārya Sudharman

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Fifth of the eleven gaṇadharas, of the Agniveśyāyana gotra, with five hundred monks.

Fifth of the eleven gaṇadharas, of the Agniveśyāyana gotra, with five hundred monks. When the others died their pupils came to him, and the Kalpasūtra's sentence makes him the trunk of the whole tree: "the Nirgrantha śramaṇas of the present time are all spiritual descendants of the monk Ārya Sudharman."

Every Śvetāmbara monk today stands in his line. The string of elders begins with him, and his pupil Jambū is its second name.

MahāvīraIndrabhūti500Agnibhūti500Vāyubhūti500Vyakta500Sudharman500Maṇḍikaputra250Mauryaputra250Akampita300Acalabhrātṛ300Metārya300Prabhāsa300the eleven, by their monks1Sudharman · Agniveśyāyana2Jambū · Kāśyapathe last kevalī · 64 years after Mahāvīra, by tradition3Prabhava · Kātyāyana4Śayyambhava · Vatsa5Yaśobhadra · Tuṅgikāyana6Sambhūtavijaya · MāṭharaBhadrabāhu · Prācīnathe last śrutakevalī · died 170 years after, by tradition7Sthūlabhadra · Gautama8Mahāgiri · AilāpatyaSuhastin · Vāsiṣṭha9Susthita · VyāghrāpatyaSupratibuddha · Vyāghrāpatya10Indradatta · Kauśika11Datta · Gautama12Siṃhagiri · Kauśika13Vajra · Gautama14Vajrasena · Utkṛṣṭa15Puṣyagiri · Kauśika16Phalgumitra · Gautama17Dhanagiri · Vāsiṣṭha18Śivabhūti · Kautsa19Bhadra · Kāśyapa20Nakṣatra · Kāśyapa21Rakṣa · Kāśyapa22Nāga · Gautama23Jehila · Vāsiṣṭha24Viṣṇu · Māṭhara25Kālaka · Gautama26Sampalita · GautamaBhadra · Gautama27Vṛddha · Gautama28Saṅghapālita · Gautama29Hastin · Kāśyapa30Dharma · Suvrata31Siṃha · Kāśyapa32Dharma · Kāśyapa33Śāṇḍilya34Jambū · Gautama35Nandita · Kāśyapa36Deśigaṇin · Kāśyapa37Sthiragupta · Vātsya38Dharma Gaṇin39Devarddhi · Kāśyapathe canon written down at Valabhī · 980 years after, by tradition (some say 993)Godāsa gaṇafounded by GodāsaTāmraliptikā · Koṭivarṣīyā · Puṇḍravardhanīyā · DāsīkharbaṭikāUttarabalissaha gaṇafounded by Uttara and BalissahaKauśāmbikā · Sautaptikā · Kauṭumbinī · CandanāgarīUddeha gaṇafounded by RohaṇaUdumbarikā · Māsapūrikā · Matipatrikā · Pūrṇapatrikākulas: Nāgabhūta · Somabhūta · Ullagaccha · HastiliptaNāndika · ParihāsakaUḍuvāṭika gaṇafounded by BhadrayaśasKampīyikā · Bhadrīyikā · Kākandikā · Mekhalīyikākulas: Bhadrayaśaska · Bhadraguptika · YaśobhadraVeśavāṭika gaṇafounded by KāmarddhiŚrāvastikā · Rājyapālikā · Antarañjikā · Kṣemaliptikākulas: Gaṇika · Maighika · Kāmarddhika · IndrapurakaCāraṇa gaṇafounded by ŚrīguptaHāritamālākārī · Saṃkāśikā · Gavedhukā · Vajranāgarīkulas: Vātsalīya · Prītidharmika · Hāridraka · PuṣyamitrikaMālyaka · Āryaceṭaka · KṛṣṇasakhaMānava gaṇafounded by ṚṣiguptaKāśyapīyā · Gautamīyā · Vāsiṣṭhīyā · Saurāṣṭrikākulas: Ṛṣiguptika · Ṛṣidattika · AbhiyaśasaKauṭika gaṇafounded by Susthita and SupratibuddhaUccanāgarī · Vidyādharī · Vajrī · Madhyamikākulas: Brahmaliptaka · Vātsalīya · Vāṇīya · PraśnavāhanakaTrairāśika · founded by Rohagupta · a śākhā alonelater śākhās down the trunk: Madhyamā, Vidyādharī,Uccanāgarī and her four, Brahmadvīpikā, Āryavajrā, Vajrasena's fourthe canon written down at ValabhīThe string of elders, as a treeKalpasūtra, Sthavirāvalī — Jacobi, SBE 22the order and the gotras are the text's; the three years are tradition, markedeach gaṇadhara's bar is as wide as his following — 4,200 monks in all39elders · 11 gaṇadharas · 8 gaṇas
The string of elders, as a tree — Ārya Sudharman highlighted

Measurements and counts

In the string1st
GotraAgniveśyāyana
Monks500
Gaṇadhara5th of 11
Descendantsevery Śvetāmbara monk

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10