The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.194.3
The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.194.3
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c5.s9.194.3
All the Jainas wore no clothes before, but during the famine, the Pāṭaliputra Jainas commenced wearing clothes. Hence Bhadrabāhu's followers after their return refused to hold fellowship with them and to acknowledge as sacred the books collected by them, that is the Aṅgas and the Pūrvas. The final separation between the two sects as Śvetāmbara and Digambara took place in 79 or 82 A.D. At a council held at Valabhi in Gujarāt under the presidency of Devarddhi, the sacred books were again settled; this took place in 154 A.D. (Hoernle's Jainism and Buddhism).