HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Choice of god
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Philosophical doctrines
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Dress
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Rituals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Option c-Digambaras don’t wear any clothes and include only men whereas Shvetambaras monks wear white clothes and they include women too. Thus, this is the correct answer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Digambaras and Svetambaras are two sects of Jainism. The main difference between Digambaras and Svetambaras was that the followers of Digambaras did not wear any clothes and followed the original teaching of Mahavira. But the followers of Svetambaras wore white clothes and did not believe in hard penance.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the earliest written Digambara account (from the 10th century ce), the two sects formed in the 4th century bce following a migration of Jain monks southward from the Ganges River (or from Ujjain) to Karnataka in response to a serious famine during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya.