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considered to be around 11th century AD. By the establishment of Suvihita-mārga the code of conduct of the monks got a new lease of life based on Agamas but the Yati tradition could not be wiped out. In a number of places these Svetāmbara Yatis had so much power that even the entry of a Suvihita monk in their territory became impossible. The Caityavāsi-yatis tradition could not be wiped out, on the contrary the Samvigna monk-tradition got repeatedly attacked and continued to be influenced by this Yati tradition, and the necessity of rejuvenating this tradition continued from time to time. Thus we see that after every 150 years in Svetāmbara tradition there were repeated revolutions for establishing Samvigna-mārga against laxity in the conduct of monks. After the religious revolutions of Kharataragaccha the ācāryas of Tapāgaccha and Ancalagaccha again worked for the improvement of the conduct of monks. And then, again efforts were made to establish the code of conduct of monks on the basis of Agamas by Acārya Aryarakṣita (Ancalagaccha) in V.S. 1169 and Arya Jagatcandra (Tapăgaccha) in V.S. 85.
A similar attempt was made with the formation of Āgamikagaccha and Tapāgaccha in V.S. 1214 and 1250. Agamikagaccha not only opposed worship of yakșas and yaksis and
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