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Sectarian divisions may have arisen because this figure allowed monks to wear clothes. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this twenty-third Tirthankara, whose successor added “celibacy” to a list of four vows. A dialogue between this figure’s follower Kesi and his successor’s follower Gautama Swami ends with Kesi adopting the fifth vow.
ANSWER: Pārśvanātha [or Pārśva]
[10m] This successor of Pārśvanātha (“PARSH-va-NAH-tha”) urged his followers to eschew clothing. A son-in-law named Jamali led the first of seven schisms from the tradition of this figure, who attained kevala jñāna (“KAY-va-luh NYAH-nuh”) slightly before the Buddha attained nirvana.
ANSWER: Mahāvīra [accept Vardhamāna]
[10e] Jains follow a vegetarian diet to fulfill this first of the five vows in Jainism. Monks may wear masks to avoid swallowing and killing insects to uphold this principle of doing no harm, also followed by Hindus and Buddhists.
ANSWER: ahiṃsā [accept nonviolence or non-injury]
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