Digambara

The name Digambara signifies sky-clad, and Swetambara white-clad.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

The Digambara are the more numerous and the stricter sect.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

The Digambara, that is, "those whose robe is the atmosphere," owe their name to the circumstance that they regard absolute nudity as the indispensable sign of holiness, [Footnote:

On the Indian Sect of the Jainas Johann Georg B��hler 1867

The film, which took three years of preparations and was filmed in nearly 100 locations across India, was one of the first to explore in depth the Jain religion, as well as portraying the life of Digambara, Shvetambara, and Sthanakavasi mendicants.

Michael Tobias Presents His Film: Ahimsa-Nonviolence 2009

The film, which took three years of preparations and was filmed in nearly 100 locations across India, was one of the first to explore in depth the Jain religion, as well as portraying the life of Digambara, Shvetambara, and Sthanakavasi mendicants.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Jainism, brought to Sravana Belgola in Mysore under Chandragupta (end 4th century B.C.E.), flourished in the Digambara, “naked clergy, ” form which the north rejected.

c. South India 2001

The returning monks maintained a stricter rule, avoided the council, and, as the Digambara sect, have steadily maintained that the true canon is lost.

C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001

Jains there, who professed to be a Digambara, though dressed in purple raiment, informed me that their sacred works were partly in Sanskrit and partly in Prakrit.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

His doctrine was closely allied to Jainism, especially the Digambara sect, but was probably more extravagant and anti-social.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The Digambara sect, or those who are clothed in air, maintain that absolute nudity is a necessary condition of saintship: the other division or Śvetâmbaras, those who are dressed in white, admit that

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896