Across the eighteenth century the Sthanakavasi communities that had grown from Lonka Shah's critique settled into a consolidated order with defined lineages of monks and nuns. Their plain halls, refusal of images, and permanent mouth-cloth marked them within the Shvetambara world from which they had come, and their discipline produced the generation from which Acharya Bhikshu's Terapanth reform emerged.
Tagged: Jain Sthanakavasi
The Event
- Date
- 18th century (approximate)
- Era
- Reform Currents; Standard periodization of Jain history
- Location
- Gujarat and Rajasthan; today India
- Traditions
- Jainism
- Streams
- Sthanakavasi
- Key texts
- Agamas
Connections
- The founding of the Sthanakavasi order; follows_from
Primary Sources
- The Jain inscriptional and temple record of the period.
Secondary Sources
- Dundas, Paul. The Jains. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2002.
- Wiley, Kristi L. Historical Dictionary of Jainism. Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Provenance: HIST-0613; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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- dharma Glossary Term
- karma Glossary Term
- Acharya Bhikshu; Terapanth History Event
- Lonka Shah History Event
- The founding of the Sthanakavasi order History Event
- Ardhamagadhi and the Prakrits Language
- Sanskrit Language
- Namokar Mantra Prayer or Creed