Three towering figures from the medieval Digambara school laid the groundwork for understanding the Sthānānga Sūtra:

1. Devendra Sūri (11th century CE)
   – His Sthānānga Bhāṣya was the first systematic gloss, cutting through the Sutra’s terse aphorisms and mapping out its sixty–four categories.

2. Malliṣeṇa (12th century)
   – Building on Devendra Sūri’s framework, his Vṛtti dives deep into each sthāna, unpacking tricky terms with logical precision—an indispensable guide for students of Jain logic.

3. Sugaladeva (13th century)
   – The author of the Nirūpaṇī, he sprinkled illustrative stories and real-world examples around the Sutra’s skeleton, making those abstract groupings spring to life.

A handful of later glossators—most notably Jinadatta Sūri at Moodabidri and Bhārat Ratna Muni Punyavijaya in early 20th-century Mumbai—penned sub-commentaries that preserved local teaching traditions. Their work often surfaced during regional monastic debates, especially at Shravanabelagola’s famed festivals.

Fast-forward to today: the 2023 International Academy of Jain Studies in Kolkata spotlighted fresh critical editions of these three core commentaries, aligning their proto-taxonomic schemes with modern data-science models. A new English translation by the Institute of Jainology (London, 2024) even draws parallels between the Sutra’s layered classifications and contemporary knowledge graphs—proof that this age-old text still speaks to 21st-century minds.