Digambara with the arms held stiffly down, knees straight, and toes directed forward. Female monastics in Digambara tradition are known as "aryikas". Statistically, there are more Digambara nuns, than there are monks. The "Digambara" Jains worship completely nude idols of "tirthankaras" (omniscient beings) and "siddha" (liberated souls). The "tirthankara" is represented either seated in yoga posture or standing in the "Kayotsarga" posture. The "Digambara" sect of Jainism rejects the authority of the texts accepted by the other major sect, the "Svetambaras". According to the "Digambaras", "Āchārya" Dharasena guided two "Āchāryas", Pushpadanta and Bhutabali, to put the teachings of Mahavira in written
History of Jainism other Angas were written down. This is a traditional account of schism. According to Svetambara, there were eight schisms ("Nihvana"). According to "Digambara" tradition, "Ganadhara" knew fourteen "Purva" and eleven "Anga". Knowledge of "Purva" was lost around 436 years after Mahavira and "Anga" were lost around 683 years after Mahavira. The texts that do not belong to "Anga" are called "Angabahyas". There were fourteen "Angabahyas". The first four "Angabahayas", "Samayika", "chaturvimasvika", "Vandana" and "Pratikramana" corresponds to sections of second "Mulasutra" of "Svetambara". The only texts of "Angabahyas" which occurs in "Svetambara" texts are "Dasavaikalika", "Uttaradhyayana" and "Kalpavyavahara". Umaswati's "Tattvartha Sutras"