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Chapter 3. The Great Schism
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their nudity. They worshipped nude images of Tirthankaras like Digambers but offered flowers, fruit and the like. Unlike Digambers they believed that women could achieve salvation and that a kevalin (omniscient) takes food. They read the scriptures of the Svetambers. By sixteenth century the sect died away and ultimately being absorbed in Digamber sect.
