On his death the Sthanakvasis split into twenty-two branches, a process which is historically obscure. The Sthanakvasis remain a strongly principled Jain sect. A recent attempt was made to unite their ascetic groups and acaryas, but this did not succeed because of a dispute whether microphones used at public meetings destroy organisms. Sushil Kumar Muni, a Sthanakvasi monk, has become well-known by intervening positively in communal disputes, and his ascetic group permit him to travel outside India to teach. They retain their household names even as ascetics - a practice which may have originally served to distinguish them from the Shvetambaras.
Worshippers go daily to the sthanak, hall, to make darshan, seeing, of the resident monks.
For other symbols see Terapanthis . But with increasing internal migration by the Sthanakvasi laity they are more widespread. Sthanakvasi ascetics can even spend caturmas, monsoon retreat, in South India.