<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Sthānakavāsī is a sect of Śvētāmbara Jainism founded by a merchant named Lavaji in 1653 AD . It believes that idol worship is not essential in the path of soul purification and attainment of Nirvana / Moksha . The sect is essentially a reformation of the one founded on teachings of Lonka, a fifteenth - century Jain reformer . Sthānakavāsins accept thirty - two of the Jain Agamas, the Śvētāmbara canon . Śvētāmbarins who are not Sthānakavāsins are mostly part of the Murtipujaka sect . </P> <P> Saints (ascetic Sthanakvasins, called maharaj saheb's) wear white clothes and cover their mouths with a square white cloth or muhapatti intended to minimize the risk of inhaling small insects or other airborne life forms, which Sthanakvasins see as a violation of ahimsa "non-violence". They eat food collected from followers' houses and do not save edibles beyond the next meal and water is not kept even for a single night . All eating and drinking has to be done between sunrise and sunset . </P>

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