Correct Answer - Option 1 : Bhadrabahu
Digambaras is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Svetambara (white-clad). The Sanskrit word Digambara means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic practice of neither possessing nor wearing any clothes.
Bhadrabahu:
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Bhadrabahu I, (died 298 BCE India), Jain religious leader and monk often associated with one of Jainism’s two principal sects, the Digambara.
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Bhadrabahu was the last acharya of the undivided Jain sangha. After him, the Sangha split into two separate teacher-student lineages of monks. Digambara monks belong to the lineage of Acharya Vishakha and Svetambara monks follow the tradition of Acharya Sthulabhadra.
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Bhadrabahu was born in Pundravardhana (The region mainly consisted of parts of the Northern West Bengal and North-Western Bangladesh, i.e., parts of North Bengal) to a Brahmin family during which time the secondary capital of the Mauryas was Ujjain. When he was seven, Govarddhana Mahamuni predicted that he will be the last Shruta Kaveli and took him along for his initial education. According to Svetambara tradition, he lived from 433 BCE to 357 BCE. Digambara tradition dates him to have died in 365 BC.
Hence, the correct answer is Bhadrabahu.
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Sthulabhadra: Sthulabhadra (297-198 BCE) was the founder of the Svetambara Jain order during a 12-year famine in the Maurya Empire in the third or fourth century BC. He was a disciple of Bhadrabahu and Sambhutavijaya. His father was Sakatala, a minister in the Nanda kingdom before the arrival of Chandragupta Maurya. When his brother became the chief minister of the kingdom, Sthulabhadra became a Jain monk.
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Parsvanath: Parshvanatha was the first Tirthankara for whom there is historical evidence. He is said to have preceded by about 250 years Mahavira, the most recent Tirthankara, who, according to tradition, died in 527 BCE. Parshvanatha established the “fourfold restraint,” the four vows taken by his followers (not to take life, steal, lie, or own property) that, with Mahavira’s addition of the vow of celibacy, became the five “great vows” (mahavratas) of Jain ascetics. Parshvanatha allowed monks to wear upper and lower garments. According to tradition, the two sets of views were reconciled by a disciple of each of the Tirthankaras, with the followers of Parshvanatha accepting Mahavira’s reforms.
