Jain dharma answer:

• Digambara and Śvetāmbara are two main Jain traditions. There isn’t a simple “which one came first.” Both trace their origins to Mahavira, but they tell different historical accounts about the split.

• Śvetāmbara (white-clad) tradition says they are the original followers of Mahavira and that the Digambara sect split off later, around the time of the famine and Bhadrabāhu’s era (in their narrative, around 82 CE, though details vary in different texts).

• Digambara (sky-clad) tradition says they are the original followers of Mahavira and that the Śvetāmbara sect split off afterward, claiming that the Digambara line preserved Mahavira’s teachings in a different form (including their own set of scriptures and practices).

• In short: both view themselves as the true line started from Mahavira, but each side attributes the split to different historical events and figures. The main practical differences you’ll notice are about monastic dress, scriptures they accept, and some beliefs about nuns and liberation, while the core path of Jainism—ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, and aparigraha—remains shared.

If you’d like, I can summarize the key doctrinal differences between the two traditions (texts, monastic rules, and views on liberation) in simple bullet points.