GK QUESTION#2154
In accounts of the Jain canon, who convened the council at Pataliputra to collect and coordinate the surviving scriptures?
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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.