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INTRODUCTION
and in view of the gravity of the situation he led his disciples towards the south (Carnât country), placing Sthulbhadra in charge of the section that remained behind. During this long famine, the Jain monks began to forget the Siddhanta ; and towards the end of the famine, while Bhadrabahu was still absent in the South, a council assembled at Pataliputra to collect the canons or the sacred texts of the Jains. Gradually the manners and customs of the church changed and the original practice of going abroad naked was abandoned The ascetics began to wear the 'White Robe'. On the other hand, when the emigrating party who made the rule of nakedness compulsory on all their members, returned to their country after the famine, they refused to hold fellowship with those that had remained at home, on account of their departure from the practices that were common before, or to accept the canons collected at Pataliputra, declaring that for them the canons were lost. This led to the final separation about the year 82 A. D. And thus they were divided into two branches, the original being styled as Shvetdm
