Jain schools and branches 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 which do not belong to Anga are called Angabahyas. There were fourteen Angabahyas. The first four Angabahyas, "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". Digambara is one of the two main sects of Jainism. This sect
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