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Section sizes

Section size for Digambara (22 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,430	3,430
Nomenclature	334	334
Origin in traditional accounts	1,501	1,501
History	2,207	2,207
Lineage	3,286	3,286
Scripture and literature	3,729	3,729
Practices	14	12,322
Monasticism	8,933	8,933
Nuns	1,596	1,596
Digambar akhara	530	530
Worship	1,249	1,249
Sub-sects	2,811	2,811
Criticism of Digambara sect	35	7,194
Padmanabh Jaini	3,581	3,581
Nalini Balbir	1,615	1,615
Kristi L. Wiley	1,248	1,248
Other religions	715	715
Differences with Śvetāmbara sect	4,354	4,354
See also	167	167
Notes	28	8,133
Sources	8,105	8,105
External links	179	179
Total	49,647	49,647

Merge

Digambara Terapanth should be merged into this article due to lack of sourced content. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 13:35, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Use of word "proposed"

In the first sentence under the "History" heading, it says "In 1943, Heinrich Zimmer proposed that the Greek records of 4th-century BC mention gymnosophists (naked philosophers) which may have links to the tradition of "nude ascetics" claimed by the Digambaras." The use of the word "proposed" here makes it seem like Zimmer was the first one to think up this idea, but T. W. Rhys Davids makes mention of the comparison between gymnosophists and Digambaras in his chapter from the thirteenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ^[1] Not sure who was the first to make the comparison, but it seems a bit misleading to say that Zimmer proposed it in 1946 when others had been doing it at least 20 years earlier. Shudsky (talk) 21:11, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ Rhys Davids, T. W. (1926). "Jainism". In Garvin, J. L. (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (9th ed.). Henry G. Allen and Company. pp. 543–544. Archived from the original on 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-03-30.

[1] Rhys Davids, T. W. (1926). "Jainism". In Garvin, J. L. (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (9th ed.). Henry G. Allen and Company. pp. 543–544. Archived from the original on 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-03-30.

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