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	Digambaras
		The name Digambara means literally 'clothed in the quarters of the sky' and they are called 'atmosphere-clad' or 'sky-clad.' Nudity is the main doctrinal difference between the Shvetambaras and the Digambaras.
		To the Digambaras, the embryo of Mahavira was not removed from the womb of Devananda to that of Trisala, as the Shvetambaras believe, and they do not follow the Shvetambara account of Mahavira being married and living the life of the householder until he was thirty.
		The holiest Digambara site is Sravana Belgola, where there is the fifty-seven foot high image of Bahubali standing in meditation in the kayotsarga posture, arms away from the side, and with creepers growing round his arms and legs and anthills covering his lower legs to symbolise the length of time he has been meditating.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/jainism/digam.html (2055 words)

	Solitary Path of the Jain Digambara - Articles - House of Hermits - Hermitary
		The usual historical explanation for the chief difference between Shvetambara and Digambara is one of geography, that the ascetics of northern India could not tolerate cold or were not as isolated from other people, while those of southern India were mostly forest recluses and wanderers.
		But the fact that both the Shvetambara and the Digambara accept the belief that Mahavira, the great Jain sage-founder of the sixth century BCE was naked does suggest a later pragmatism that split the monks and created the white-clad order.
		The Digambara are a radical assertion of eremitic asceticism.
	www.hermitary.com /articles/digambara.html (1646 words)

	DIGAMBARA: Daily Routine Of a Digambara Monk
		DIGAMBARA: A monk who has renounced the world, is without a home and without possessions and therefore moves around completely naked.
		The only objects a Digambara monk is allowed to carry are a kamandalu, water-pot, and a pinchi, a fly-whisk of peacock feathers.
		According to old scriptures however, the dead body of a Muni should be put on a riverbank so that it is either washed away by the river or eaten by birds.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/digambara.html (901 words)

	The Digambara sub-sects
		The Bisapantha, according to some, is the original form of the Digambara sect and today practically all Digambara Jainas from Maharashtra, Karnataka and South India and a large number of Digambara Jainas from Rajasthan and Gujarat are the followers of Bisapantha.
		The Terapantha had performed a valuable task of rescuing the Digambaras from the clutches of wayward Bhattarakas and hence the Terapanthis occupy a peculiar position in the Digambara Jaina community.
		However, the influence of Kanjipantha is steadily increasing and Sonagarh town in Gujarat and Jaipur in Rajasthan have become the centers of varied religious activities of the Kanajipanthis.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/antiquity/digasubs.htm (997 words)

	Digambara Swamiyar
		In the forties, the libraries of the Indian province of Tamil were crammed with "thuppariyum kathaigal" (detective stories) which caught the attention of thousands of readers.
		DIGAMBARA SWAMIYAR was the hero (and title) of a very popular Indian detective novel of the 1950's, which dealt with the adventures of a "sanyasi" (or holy man) turned private eye.
		In true pulp tradition, Digambara wore all kinds of disguises and performed great feats of courage in order to unmask the villains.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/digambara.html (182 words)

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