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Sumati-Jñāna Drstivada. The entire canonical of the Jains is known as Nigantha-pavayana (Sermons of the Nirgrantha), or merely Siddhanta (doctrine). It consists of some sixty texts divided into three groups of works known as purva (14 texts), anga (12 texts), and angabahy (34 texts), all handed down in the ancient dialect of Ardhamagadhi. Famine According to Jain tradition, the terrible famine visited Magadha. Half the Jain community moved to south India under the leadership of Bhadrabahu and settled in a place known as Sravana Belgola. When the famine ended after 12 years, the emigrants came back to the north. The returning monks condemned those monks who had stayed behind and called them heretics. Division Differences began to increase between the two sections. That ultimately led to the devision of Jains into two parts viz. (1) Digambaras and (2) Swetambaras. According to the Digambaras, the original canon perished with Bhadrabahu who was the last to possess knowledge of it in its entirety. He imparted it to Sthulabhadra but forbade him to teach only 10 out of the 14 Purvas to others. Digambaras believe in living a very hard life. They go about naked. The Swetambaras put on cloths and do not believe in the mortification of the body. Spread of Jainism Jainism spread in all parts of India. The important centres of Jainims were Mathura, Ujjain and Gujarat. The Jains attribute the destruction of their temples to the hostility of the Muslims. Alaud-din-Khilji raised many of the Jain temples in Gujarat. He massacred their community and destroyed their libraries. Many of the most beautiful Muslim mosques in India have been built out of the material taken from the Jain temples.
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