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Question
Mention any one difference between the Digambaras and the Svetambaras.
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Solution
The main difference between Digambaras and Svetambaras was that the followers of Digambaras did not wear any clothes and followed the original teaching of Mahavira. But the followers of Svetambaras wore white clothes and did not believe in a hard penance.
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