Leader of a group
Sanskrit 'gana' (group, assembly) + 'dhara' (holder, leader).
Each Tirthankara appoints senior disciples as Ganadharas to organize and carry the teaching onward to the wider fourfold community of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.
Bhadrabahu, the last Shrutakevali to hold the Jain canon complete in memory, presided over the famine that split Jain memory of him between Karnataka and Nepal.
The fourteenth Tirthankara, born to King Sinhasena and Queen Suyasha at Ayodhya, renounces a vast kingdom for the boundless liberation his name had promised.
Aranatha, the eighteenth Tirthankara, is recorded in Kalpa Sutra chapter 1 as one of three Tirthankaras who reigned as Chakravartin before renouncing empire.
Dharmanatha, the fifteenth Tirthankara, born to King Bhanu and Queen Suvrata at Ratnapuri, carries in his own name the word that anchors this land's moral vocabulary.
Kunthunatha, the seventeenth Tirthankara and sixth Chakravartin, who renounced a universal empire with nothing left to conquer, to seek liberation.
The story of the twentieth Tirthankara, born to King Sumitra and Queen Padmavati at Rajgir, in whose distant era Jain tradition places the events later retold in its own Ramayana, the Paumacariya.