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61/जैनों का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, दर्शन, व्यवहार एवं वैज्ञानिक आधार ।
2. No one can attain ‘Nirvāņ' without giving up clothes.
This too is academic as both sects think that hardly anyone can attain it after Jambu Swāmi. Hence even the difference of opinion of Digambars with Swetāmbars that Omniscients ‘Kevali' before giving up body, do not partake meal or need to do
ablutions, is not of practical value. 3. Digambars unlike Swetāmbers think, the embryo of
Vardhaman not having been transplanted from the womb of Devnandā to Trishalā, nor Mahāveer having married or begot a daughter 'Priyadarshani, and so on; other differences are still less significant.
In the world of sculpture, Digambars have left monumental images of 'Bāhubaljee - one such is at 'Sravanbelgolā' 17 meters high built in 931 A.D. by Chamāṇdrai. There is another such image 37 feet high built at Venur in 1603 A.D. There is Treasure-Hall of Hoishayala kings who also got built temples dedicated to 24 Tirthankars. In northern India a cluster of famous Jain temples is at Khajurao - One such temple is ‘Parswanāth' comparable to famous 'Kand Mahadeo'. Another such cluster is at 'Deogarh' consisting thirty one Jain temples which have more than thousand statues, one of which is praised as the finest one in India.
Such is the great heritage of Jainism forcing us to ponder over our sources of unity. Despite. many schisms let us question ourselves how near or far are we from Mahaveer. May we call ourselves his real followers or are we merely like 'Goshālak' or an unwanted piece of cloth attached to Mahaveer to be shed , earlier the better, as Goshalak lived so close and so long with Mahāveer, yet
