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98 Jaina Religion: Its Historical Journey of Evolution
enjoy the same social status and power. Similarly in the Svetāmbara tradition there were voices of dissent in the form of Suvihita-mārga, Samvignamārga against the Yati-tradition, and then Tapāgaccha, Kharataragaccha etc. came into existence. But none of them remained untouched by the influence of Yati-tradition.
The opposition to Caityavāsa began from gih century AD in the Svetāmbara tradition. Acārya Haribhadra in the second chapter of his
Sambodha-prakarana' has severely criticized the slackness of conduct and the actions of Yatis living in caityas and he spearheaded a revolution against them. But even Haribhadra's voice of revolution remained unheard because of the strong prevailing conditions in that period. This class of Yatis remained absorbed in their life of comfort and accumulation of possessions. We do not have any authentic evidence available by which it could be proved that Acārya Haribhadra's zeal of revolution had any greater impact on these caityavāsi Yatis. A strong opposition against Caityavāsa came from Ācārya Vardhmānasūri of Candrakula in Śvetāmbara tradition. He was the first one who reestablished Suvihita tradition against Caityavāsa. This tradition later became known as Kharataragaccha. The period of this tradition is
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