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    Who was the first founder of Svetambara creed during the first partition of Jain creed?

    Sthulabhadra 

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    Bhadrabahu

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    Kalakacharya

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    Deverdhi Kshama Sharaman

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    Explanation:

    • During Chandragupta Maurya's reign, Jain tradition states that Acharya Bhadrabahu predicted a twelve-year-long famine and moved to Karnataka with his disciples.
    • Sthulabhadra, a pupil of Acharya Bhadrabahu, stayed in Magadha.
    • Later, when followers of Acharya Bhadrabahu returned, they found those who had remained at Magadha had started wearing white clothes, which was unacceptable to the others who remained naked.
    • This is how Jains believe the Digambara and Svetambara schism began, with the former being naked while the latter wore white clothes.
    • Digambara saw this as being opposed to the Jain tenet of aparigraha which, according to them, required not even possession of clothes, i.e.complete nudity.
    • In the 5th-century CE, the Council of Valabhi was organized by Svetambara, which Digambara did not attend.
    • At the council, the Svetambara adopted the texts they had preserved as canonical scriptures, which Digambara have ever since rejected.
    • This council solidified the historic schism between these two major traditions of Jainism.


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