.. out of the Ko[t.]iya school, the
Pra['s]navahanaka line and the Majhama branch...." The restoration of the
two names Ko[t.]iya and Pra['s]navahanaka seems to me absolutely certain,
because they exactly fill the blanks in the inscription, and because the
information in the _Kalpasutra_ (S. B. E. vol. XXII, p. 293)
regarding the Madhyama['s]akha points in that direction. The latter work
tells us that Priyagantha, the second pupil of Susthita and Supratibuddha,
founded a ['s]akha, called Madhyama or Majhima.
As our inscriptions show that Professor Jacobi's explanation of the terms
_ga[n.]a, kula_ and _['s]akha_ [Footnote: _S. B. E_. vol.
XXII, p. 288, note 2.] is correct and that the first denotes the school,
the second the line of teachers, and the third a branch which separated
from such a line, it follows that the ['s]akhas named in the
_Kalpasutra_ without the mention of a _ga[n.]a_ and _kula_,
must belong to the last preceding _ga[n.]a_ and derive their origin
from one of its _kulas_. Hence the Madhyama ['s]akha doubtless was
included in the Kau[t.]ika ga[n.]a, and an offshoot of one of its
_kulas_, the fourth of which is called Pra['s]navahanaka or
Pa[n.]havaha[n.]aya. The correctness of these inferences is proved by
Raja['s]ckhara's statement regarding his spiritual descent at the end of
the _Prabandha kosha_, which he composed in Vik.
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