Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Digambara

by Edgar Thurston

Digambara (space-clad or sky-clad, i.e., nude). — One of the two main divisions of the Jains. The Digambaras are said †^[1] to "regard absolute nudity as the indispensable sign of holiness, though the advance of civilisation has compelled them to depart from the practice of their theory."

1. † G. Buhler on the Indian Sect of the Jainas, 1903,