The Śvetāmbaras hold that wearing simple garments does not prevent liberation and that women can attain it; they honour Mallī, the nineteenth tīrthaṅkara, as a woman. They preserve a canon of Āgamas compiled at Valabhī in the fifth century. They are strongest in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Śvetāmbara
The “white-clad” branch of Jainism, whose monks and nuns wear simple white robes.
Also: Shvetambara, Svetambara