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The history of the growth and development of sects and various sub-sects in Jain tradition responded to the requirements and tendencies of different times the Jain texts like Bhagyavati, Visesavasyaka, Bhashya, and Sthananaga, show that there were schimes in Mahavira. The first Bahurata schism is attributed to Jamali, the son in law of Mahaveera, the second Jivapradesha-Schism to Tisyagupta then schisms appeared in Jainism a few centuries offer the Nirvana of Mahaveera. According to Svetambara the Jain order was divided in to two sects 609 years after the death of Mahaveera, by Sivabhuti, a resident of Rathavirapura, who was a disciple of Kancha. J. L Jaini quetes: 'The division of the Jain community in the two sects of svtambara, "write-robed" and Digambar as "sky-robed" i.e. naked, took place according to their concurrent, testimony, 609 years after Mahaveera i.e. about 80 A.D. Basham, A.L. views that " Out of this migration arose the great schism of Jainism on a point of monastic discipline Bhadrabhanu, the elder of the community, who had led the emigrants and had insisted on the retention of the rule of nudity which Mahaveera had estanlished. Stulabhadra, the leader of the monks who had remained in the north, allowed his followers to wear write garments owing to the hardships and confusion of the famine. Hence, arose the two sects of Jains, the Digambaras and the svetambras the Schism did not become final until the 1st Century. A.D.