Shvetambara Jainism
 

This is the older and less austere of Jainism, a heterodox, ancient Indian philosophy propounded by saints known as Tirthankaras. Shveta means white and ambar clothes. Shvetambara thus means `clothed in white'. While the older Digambar sect practices nudism, the Shvetambara sect permits the use of a simple white cloth to cover the body. The differences between the two sects are more in rituals and practice than in doctrine and theory. Sthulahadra was a Shvetambara Jain who opposed Bhadrabahu , the noted Digambar Jain, got the history and canons of Jainism recorded (in Prakrit) for the first time by calling a council of monks at Pataliputra. The Shvetambaras have gone on adding to their scriptures and some of them are : Anga, Upanga, Prakirnaka, Mulasutra, Nandidut Anuyogadvara and Tattvadhigama Sutra.