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'''Sudharmaswami''' ({{lang-sa|Sudharmāsvāmī}} or '''Sudharman'''; 607 BC – 507 BC) was the fifth [[ganadhara]] of [[Mahavira]]. All the current [[Jainism|Jain]] [[acharya]]s and monks follow his rule.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Sudharmaswami was the spiritual successor of [[Indrabhuti Gautama]] in religious order reorganised by [[Mahavira]].{{sfn|Natubhai Shah|2004|p=39}} He is traditionally dated from 607 to 506 BCE.{{sfn|Natubhai Shah|2004|p=41}} He is believed in Jain tradition to have obtained omniscience after 12 years in 515 BC.{{sfn|Natubhai Shah|2004|p=39}} He is believed to have attained [[moksha (Jainism)|nirvana]] in 507 BC at the age of 100.{{sfn|Natubhai Shah|2004|p=39}}{{sfn|George|2008|p=319}} The leadership of religious order was then transferred to [[Jambuswami]] who served for 44 years and was the last Ghandhara who survived after death of Mahavira{{sfn|Natubhai Shah|2004|p=39}}<br />
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For Jains, their scriptures represent the literal words of Mahavira and the other [[tirthankara]]s only to the extent that the agama is a series of beginning-less, endless and fixed truths, a tradition without any origin, human or divine, which in this world age has been channelled through Sudharmāsvāmī.{{sfn|Dundas|2002|p=61}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Jain monasticism]]<br />
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* {{citation |last=Dundas |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Dundas |title=The Jains |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8iAAgAAQBAJ |edition=Second |date=2002 |orig-year=1992 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=0-415-26605-X }}<br />
* {{citation |last=George |first=Vensus A. |author-link=Vensus A. George |title=Paths to the Divine: Ancient and Indian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYaRePV92YwC |publisher=[[The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy]] |date=2008 |volume=XII |isbn=978-1-56518-248-6}}<br />
* {{citation |last=Shah |first=Natubhai |title=Jainism: The World of Conquerors |url={{Google books|qLNQKGcDIhsC|plainurl=yes}} |volume=I |date=2004 |orig-year=First published in 1998 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |isbn=978-81-208-1938-2 |ref={{sfnref|Natubhai Shah|2004}} }}<br />
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