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24 THE JAIN MIGRATION TO THE SOUTH. the south. After staying some time at Chandragiri hill, he died there. Chandragupta, the founder of, the Mauryan ,greatness, himself a Jain, proceeded to the same place with his Acharya and, after surviving him'twelve years, died there.
The death of Bhadrabāhu took place, according to the Digambaras, 162 years after Vardhamāna or, according to Svētāmbaras, 170 years after Vardhamāna,' which also is the date arrived at by Jacobi and that is 297 B.C.
This fact of the Jain migration is important, as it furnishes us the starting point for an account of the Jains in the south, as otherwise, we would be left in the dark as to the cause and course of the Jain migration. Dr. Leumann says that this migration of the Jains to the south is the initial fact of the Digambara tradition. It is from this epoch that the Jain community which was undivided before separated into two sects, the Digambaras and the Svētāmbaras. As this is one of the important points in the early history of Jains, we shall briefly notice it.
The history of the Jain Church is full of references to the various schisins that chad taken place from time to time.. According to Svētāmbaras, there were eight schisms, the first of which was originated by Malāvira's son-in-law, Jamali, and the last, occurring 609 years after the death of Vardhamāna (83 A.D.), gave rise to
The Jain Church:
'The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XXII, p. xliii.
Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXI, pp. 59 And 60.
