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Name the two sects into which Jainism got divided. Why were they so called?
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The two sects into which Jainism got divided were:
- Shvetambaras or White clad.
- Digambaras or sky-clad.
Digambara sect is called so as the sanskrit word Digambar means sky-clad, referring to their traditional monastic practice of neither possessing nor wearing any clothes. Shvetambara means white clad as it refers to its ascetics' practice of wearing white clothes.
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