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मूलनायक (mUlanAyaka)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Mūla-nāyaka (BL), epithet of a Jain Tīrthaṅkara
Mahāvīra
called ‘the Mūla-nāyaka of the Saṇḍeraka-gaccha’.
(HA), the main deity in the sanctum of a shrine or in a
devakulikā
also the central Jina in a sculpture representing a
group of Jinas.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
°मूलनायक m. a title of Ādinātha or Rṣabha, Prabandh. 231, 6
264, 10. Vgl. Tawney, S. 142, Anm. 4.