Digambar
Rakshabandhan
Akampanacharya’s sangh of seven hundred munis at Hastinapur is tormented for seven days by the ministers Bali, Brihaspati, Prahlad and Namuchi. Muni Vishnukumar intervenes and subdues Namuchi on Shravan Purnima. The thread is tied in memory of that protection.
- Digambar
- kept by
- One day
- how long
- 28 August 2026
- when it falls
Which traditions keep it
The Jain account of this day is narrated principally in Digambar sources. What the thread stands for is not sibling affection but the protection of munis.
What is done
Akampanacharya’s sangh of seven hundred munis at Hastinapur is tormented for seven days by the ministers Bali, Brihaspati, Prahlad and Namuchi. Muni Vishnukumar intervenes and subdues Namuchi on Shravan Purnima. The thread is tied in memory of that protection.
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Sources
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- Encyclopedia of Jainism — Rakshabandhan, the Jain viewCommunity source
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