HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Rajgriha
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Vallabhi
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Ujjaini
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Sanchi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Establishment of Svetambara Sect under Jainism took place in Vallabhi during the year 453 to 466 CE. The followers of the Svetambara sects wear white clothes. Digambara is another sect whose ascetic practitioners go naked. Women are able to obtain moksha this was believed by Svetambaras.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sthulabhadra (297-198 BCE) was the founder of Svetambara Jain order during a 12-year famine in Maurya empire in third or fourth-century BC. He was a disciple of Bhadrabahu and Sambhutavijaya. His father was Sakatala, a minister in Nanda kingdom before the arrival of Chandragupta Maurya.
Detailed explanation-3: -Śvētāmbara means “white-clad", and refers to its ascetics’ practice of wearing white clothes, which sets it apart from the Digambara “sky-clad” Jains, whose ascetic practitioners go nude. Śvētāmbaras, unlike Digambaras, do not believe that ascetics must practice nudity.