and the translation (so far) will be,—
"Success! Adoration to the Arhat Mahâvirâ, the destroyer(?) of the gods.
In the year of king Vâsudeva, 98, in the month 4 of the rainy season, on
the day 11—on the above date ... of the chief of the school
(_gaṇin_) Aryya-Devadata (Devadatta) out of the school
(_gaṇa_) of the Aryya-Udehikîya (Ârya-Uddehikiya), out of the
Parihâsaka line (_kula_), out of the Ponapatrikâ (Paurṇapatrikâ)
branch (_śâkhâ_)." [Footnote: At a later date Dr. Bühler added
other proofs from inscriptions of the authenticity of the Jaina
tradition, in the _Vienna Oriental Journal_, vol. II, pp. 141-146;
vol. III, pp. 233-240; vol. IV, pp. 169-173, 313-318; vol. V, pp.
175-180; and in _Epigraphia Indica_, vol. I pp. 371-397; vol. II,
pp. 195-212, 311. The paragraphs given above are chiefly from his first
paper in the _Vienna Oriental Journal_ (vol. I, pp. 165-180), which
appears to be an extended revision of the long footnote in the original
paper on the Jainas, but it is here corrected in places from readings in
his later papers.—J. B.]
These and many other statements in the inscriptions, about the teachers
and their schools are of no small importance in themselves for the early
history of the Jainas. The agreement of the above with the
_Kalpasûtra_ can best be shown by placing the statements in question
against one another. The inscriptions prove the actual existence of twenty
of the subdivisions mentioned in the Sthavirâvali of the
_Kalpasûtra_. Among its eight gaṇas we can certainly trace three,
possibly four—the Uddchika, Vâraṇa, Veśavâḍiya(?) and Koḍiya.