With reference to the religious practices in India the ldquo Sthanakvasi rdquo sect belongs to ........

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With reference to the religious practices in India, the “Sthanakvasi” sect belongs to

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Sthanakavasi is a sect of Svetambara Jainism founded by a merchant named Lavaji in 1653 AD. It believes that idol worship is not essential in the path of soul purification and attainment of Nirvana/Moksha.
The sect is essentially a reformation of the one founded on teachings of Lonka, a fifteenth-century Jain reformer. Sthanakavasins accept thirty-two of the Jain Agamas, the Svetambara canon. Svetambarins who are not Sthanakavasins are mostly part the Murtipujaka sect