In his 1954 book ‘Samanamum Tamilum’, the late scholar and historian Mayilai Seeni Venkatasami says it is possibly because Jain monks in TN belonged to the Digambara sect, which because of an ...

Central to Jainism are five vows ... the Jains divided into an orthodox sect Digambara ("sky–clad") in which followers claimed adherence to Mahavira's philosophy by going without clothes ...

The idol is naked in the temple, much like the statues pertaining to the Digambara sect of Jainism. The head bun is the only aberration from regular Jain statues, Ramachandran says. “The concept ...

Deccan – Plateau in South Central India. Dharma – Duty (Hinduism); righteousness (Jainism); teachings of Buddha (Buddhism). Digambara– A sect belonging to the Jain religion known as ‘sky ...

Nisar Ahmed, who was in Mysuru on Tuesday holding a progress review meeting, Mr. Suresh Kumar Jain, who is also the general secretary of ... to issue Jain Digambara and other sub-caste ...