According to the
_Kalpasutra_, Sushita, the ninth successor to Vardhamana In the
position of patriarch, together with his companion Supratibuddha, founded
the 'Ko[d.]iya' or 'Kautika _ga[n.]a_, which split up into four
'_sakha_, and four '_kula_'. Inscription No. 4. which is dated
in the year 9 of the king Kanishka or 87. A.D. (?) gives us a somewhat
ancient form of the name of the _ga[n.]a Ko[t.]iya_ and that of one
of its branches exactly corresponding to the _Vairi ['s]akha_.
Mutilated or wrongly written, the first word occurs also in inscriptions
Nos. 2, 6 and 9 as _koto-, ke[t.][t.]iya_, and _ka_ ..., the
second in No. 6 as _Vora_. One of the families of this
_ga[n.]a_, the _Va[n.]iya kula_ is mentioned in No. 6, and
perhaps in No. 4. The name of a second, the _Pra['s]navaha[n.]aka_,
seems to have appeared in No. 19. The last inscription mentions also
another branch of the Ko[t.]iya ga[n.]a, the _Majhima sakha_, which,
according to the _Kalpasutra,_ was founded by Priyagantha the second
disciple of Susthita. Two still older schools which, according to
tradition, sprang from the fourth disciple of the eighth patriarch, along
with some of their divisions appear in inscriptions Nos. 20 and 10. These
are the _Aryya-Udehikiya ga[n.]a_, called the school of the
Arya-Roha[n.]a in the _Kalpasutra_, to which belonged the
_Parihasaka kula_ and the _Purnapatrika ['s]akha,_ as also the
_Chara[n.
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