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North India
With minor special cases, all of the finished Jainism structures was to be impeded to ensure sublime help in the middle of a couple of times fundamental to Muslim control in northern India. As part of its Din-e-Elahi approach, Mughal emperor Akbar was clearly dedicated for Jainism. He had rejected the butchering of animals between the days of Paryushan in 1583 CE. At first, Jahangir had denied this course of action. Again announced the same in 1610 CE. The sovereign Shahjahan was more tolerant of Jainism and allowed a Jain Temple to construct first. Jains have contributed the structural parts of the Red Fort at New Delhi and in the same way; they traded with the inhabitants of the area (Ghosh, 1974, p. 143).
2.1.2 Sects in Jainism
Even in this case Jainism was not an unprecedented case. Spreading expansive parts of India, shifting the clarifications of Jain's statutes, and limiting current leaders, at the time caused the marked areas and sub-fragments within Jainism in different inspirations that led time in its long history. The most fundamental sects in Jainism are known as Digamber and Swetamber groups. The division of sects took place is about 600 years
after Lord Sri Mahavira's nirvana.
Bhagwan Mahaveer
(599-527 BCE)
Shvetambar
Digambar
Taranpanth (Ca 1490)
Lonka Sect 1452 CE Sthanakvasi 1653 CE
Terapanth (1760 CE)
Kanjiswami (1889-1981)
Terahpanth (1626 CE)
Terapanth
Deravasi Murtipujak
Sthanakvasi
Rajchandra Sub-sects
Kanjipanth
Bisapanth
Terakpanth Tarampanth
Figure: 2.3 - Jainism: Major Sects and Sub-sects
Source: (Sect division, n.d.)
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