- Gaccha,
alternatively spelled as
Gachchha, is a
monastic order,
along with lay followers, of the idol
worshipping Murtipujaka Śvetāmbara sect of Jainism...
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anachronistic anecdotes.
Prithviraj has also been
mentioned in Kharatara-
Gachchha-Pattavali, a
Sanskrit text
containing biographies of the
Kharatara Jain...
- Mūrtipūjaka (lit. "image-worshipper"), also
known as Derāvāsī ("temple-dweller") or
Mandir Mārgī ("follower of the
temple path"), is the
largest sect of...
- the
Balatkara Gana of Mula
Sangh Tapagaccha Pattavali:
Pattavali of Tapa
Gachchha Upkeśa
Gaccha Pattavali:
Pattavali of the Upkeśa
Gaccha (now extinct),...
- Tapa
Gaccha is the
largest Gaccha (monastic order) of Śvetāmbara Jainism. More than half of the
existing Jain
ascetics belong to the Tapa Gaccha. Several...
-
yaksha Manibhadra is
worshipped by the
Jains affiliated with the Tapa
Gachchha.
During tenth and
thirteenth centuries yaksha Saarvanubhuti, or Sarvahna...
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section of the Mula Sangh. It is
often termed Balatkara Gana
Sarasvati Gachchha.
Until the
beginning of the 20th
century it was
present in a
number of...
-
Kharatara Gaccha is one of Śvetāmbara
Murtipujaka Gacchas. It is also
called the
Vidhisangha (the ****embly) or
Vidhimarga (Path of
Proper Conduct), as...
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kalashas (cupolas) for the Jain
temples at Ranthambore. The Kharatara-
Gachchha-Pattavali
states that
Ajayaraja II
allowed the
Jains to
build their temples...
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follows Jainism. It is
believed to be
connected with the
Bhavadar or
Bhavada Gachchha to
which the Jain
Acharya Kalakacharya belonged to. They may have originated...
