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1st. The Digambaras represent their gods perfectly naked, and without 
any kind of ornament. 
2d. They allow only the ten Mila Siitras of the holy books of the Jainas 
to be original, and reject the rest. 
4th. They say that the laity, or those who wear clothes and ornaments, the 
lowest classes of mankind, and women, cannot attain mucti or immortality. 
doth. Their Sud’hus are expected to remain quite naked, and are allowed 
to possess only two articles of equipment: a fan of peacock’s feathers, and 
a cup. 
7th. They deny that Risnap’HaDEvA was a yugala, or that he married the 
widow of a yugala. 
8th. They deny that the Zir?hancaras are subject to disease. 
9th. They assert that it is better to die than to eat flesh or pluck fruits 
from the tree and eat them. 
10th. The S'wétambaras say the minute portion of time called a samaya, 
cannot be divided: these, on the contrary, say it can, even to infinity. 
11th. They consider it unlawful, under any circumstances, to kill a man. 
12th. They say that it is not lawful for Sad’hus to take food from the 
house of a Sura. 
13th. Their Sad’hus do not carry wands, nor do they bore the ears of their 
novices. 
14th. They believe that the mother of a Tér?’hancara has sixteen dreams 
indicative of the future greatness of the being she is destined to bring into 
the world: the S‘wétdmbaras say only fourteen. 
15th. That the Jadu tribe, from which most of the Tir?hancaras are 
sprung, did not eat flesh or drink wine—the S'wétambaras say they did. 
16th. They call the fast of the Pajusan, Daslac’hini, and it commences 
with them, when that of the Swétimbaras ends. 
17th. They say that eight portions of the soul are pure from all connexion 
with Carma—the S'wélambaras say the whole is implicated with Carma. 
18th. That penance and austerities cannot destroy the effect of Carma, 
or expiate crime. 
19th. The Digambara Sad’hus eat out of their hands, not out of dishes. 
20th. They say the Zir?hancaras are not supreme gods, but only 
Parama Gurus, saints, prophets, or spiritual instructors. 
1st. They will not allow women to perform religious ceremonies, or touch 
their images 
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