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Sec. 4. HISTORICAL POSITION OF THE T.S,
Sravanabelgola during the 7th century mostly record the death fast of ascetics. This sangha likely migrated to Sravanabelgola in much earliar time than 600 A. D. and its members gradually demised by this time.
All these evince that the mass migration of the Jaina communities, both lay and ascetis, took place gradually during the Gupta period beginning with the 4th century A. D. Sporadic migrations must have occurred from time to time in the pre-Guptan era as apparent from the foregoing data, which however did not at all become a force to change the geography of the Jainas. The waves of the mass exodus of the Jaioa communities in the Gupta age from Mathurā to all these places which are concentrated in the South and the West bad largely determined the geography of the present day Jainas, that was a monumental event in the Jaina history.
The seemingly silent activities of the Jainas in the North during the Gupta age can be thus well explained by their gradual mass migration, who were spending their energy for the settlement in the new places. The schism took place around the time when the Canonical Council was held at Valabhi, thenceforth notable literary activities began in the Soutb, and the unbroken canonical tradition continued in the West. Tnus despite of this revolutionary change of the Jaina communities caused by the social impact of the days, the literary activities of the Jaina monks seem to have continued from the previous period in a flow without a break in both Southern and Western India. Ascetic Sinhas owe for it to the constant care and suport of the laity, to won the formir likewise a nply responded by taking up th: role of spiritual leadership. (3) Great schism
When and how the great schism into the present day Sveta nbaras and Digambaras came into being is shrouded in mist. The absence of the essential doctrinal discor. dances between these two major schools however suggests that the schism arose in the comparatively recent time. Had the schism occurred in the 3rd century B. C, for instance, both schools would have developed substantially different doctrinal systems, event not to th: extent of Mahāyāaism and Hinayānism in the Buddhist schools. However the fact stands that the Jaina dogmatic concepts which evolved since Mahavira's time up to the 5th century AD. and were represented in the TS in essence were basically received by the two sects. This implies that the schism took place after the stage when the Āgimic concepts grew into a full maturity.
The Viseșāvas yakabhäş ya 3032-3092 refer to śivabhūti's nihnava which is not men. tioned in the previous literature in the Āgamic tradition. The story goes that Śivabhūli, who was unhappy about his guru's disapproval of his possessing an ornamented stawl donated by a king on the ground of parigraha, quarreled with him about the matter of purirani a3 to th: jiankilpi's possessio i of upadhi, i. e., a broom stick and a
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