Jain Agamas (Digambara) to the extent that the Agama is a series of beginning-less, endless and fixed truths, a tradition without any origin, human or divine, which in this world age has been channelled through Sudharma, the last of Mahavira's disciples to survive. Jain Agamas (Digambara) Agamas are texts of Digambara Jainism based on the discourses of the "tirthankara". The originals are all lost, and the extant versions were written in the 1st millennium CE. They are believed by Digambaras to be Mahavira's discourses in a samavasarana (divine preaching hall). They are called "Śhrut Jnāna" and comprises twelve "angas" and fourteen "purvas". This
Jain schools and branches unacceptable to the other who remain naked. This is how the Digambara and Svetambara sect came about. The "Digambara" being the naked ones where as "Svetambara" being the white clothed. According to Digambara, the purvas and the angas were lost. In course of time, the cannons of Svetambara were also getting lost. About 980 to 993 years after the Nirvana of Mahavira, a Vallabhi council was held at Vallabhi (now in Gujarat). This was headed by Devardhi Ksamashramana. It was found that the 12th Anga, the Ditthivaya, was lost too. The other Angas were written down. This is a traditional