JAINA LITERATURE. [ PART 1 ]
✓The sacred books of the Jainas are collectively known as the Siddhanta or Agama.
✓The language of the earliest texts is an eastern dialect of Prakrit known as Ardha Magadhi.
✓The Jaina monastic order came to be divided into the Shvetambara and Digambara schools, perhaps in about the 3rd century CE.
✓The Shvetambara canon includes the 12 Angas, 12 Uvamgas (Upangas), 10 Painnas (Prakirnas), 6 Cheya Suttas (Cheda Sutras), 4 Mula Suttas (Mula Sutras), and a number of individual texts such as the Nandi Sutta (Nandi Sutra) and Anugodara (Anuyogadvara).
✓Both schools accept and give prime importance to the Angas.
✓According to Shvetambara tradition, the Angas were compiled at a council held at Pataliputra. The compilation of the entire canon is supposed to have taken place in the 5th or 6th century at a council held in Valabhi in Gujarat, presided over by Devarddhi Kshamashramana.
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