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GK QUESTION#2154

In accounts of the Jain canon, who convened the council at Pataliputra to collect and coordinate the surviving scriptures?

  1. ASthulabhadraCorrect answer
  2. BBhadrabahu
  3. CMahakasyapa
  4. DSudharma
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A. Sthulabhadra

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Sthulabhadra. Scholarly accounts of the Jain canon associate him with convening the Pataliputra council after a famine. The resulting canon was contested by monks associated with the Digambara tradition. Later councils at Mathura and Valabhi complicate a simple “first and second council” sequence.

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