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
Jain meditation or non-Jains. It is important to note that these developments happened mainly among Śvētāmbara sects, while Digambara groups generally did not develop new modernist meditation systems. Digambara sects instead promote the practice of self-study (Svādhyāya) as a form of meditation, influenced by the work of Kundakunda. This practice of self study (reciting scriptures and thinking about the meaning) is included in the practice of equanimity (sāmāyika) which is the spiritual practice emphasized by 20th century Digambara sects. The modern era saw the rise of a new Śvētāmbara sect, the Śvētāmbara Terapanth, founded by Ācārya Bhikṣu, who was said to be