By the end of the 4th century B.C. there appeared a great division among the followers of ………….. one section came to be known as ‘Digambaras’.The other section known as Swethambaras.

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• The original belief that one who is sick cannot cure others came to be radically transformed by the bodhisattva ideal, which appeared in the later phase of Buddhism known as …………….
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