Where Svetambara monastics keep a robe, a bowl and a water gourd, Digambara munis carry even less: full ordination requires giving up clothing entirely, and a muni owns nothing but a soft whisk of peacock feathers, the picchi, used to gently clear a spot before sitting, and a water pot for washing. Digambara monks eat only once each day, and only standing up, taking food directly into cupped hands from a lay household rather than from a bowl, a practice understood as the furthest extension of owning nothing, not even a vessel to eat from.
Because full nakedness is required for the munis' rank, and because the tradition holds that only a naked ascetic has renounced completely enough to reach liberation in this life, Digambara nuns, called aryikas, cannot hold that highest rank at all; they wear a single white sari, follow most of the same austerities as monks, and are honoured as advanced renunciants, but the tradition places them formally behind fully ordained munis rather than treating female and male ordination as equivalent paths, the same question Svetambara monasticism resolves the opposite way. This disagreement over whether liberation is reachable from a female body at all, not just a difference in dress, is one of the oldest and least reconciled divides between the two orders, tied directly to the broader Svetambara Digambara schism.