Pt. Banarasidas ji was born in a swetamber jain family.He was the person who established the terapanth of Digamber jainism.
In terapanth of digamber jainism, they do abhisek of Jina idol only with Water and do not do panchamrit abhisek as in Beespanth of Digamber jainism.They also do not use Flowers and non-dry fruits like apple, orange etc for Jina-puja.
In digamber-terapanth , woman do not touch jaina idol and also do not do Jina-abhisek.
Terapanthi-digambers are mostly in bundelkhand,UP and parts of Rajasthan.
There is no concept of bhattaraks in terapanth-digambers.
Terapanth of digambers was established in a period when the jain-pujas have become very magnificent with the use of panchamrit abhisek and flowers and sweets and fruits etc.
In digamber-terapanth, one more imporatant salient feature is that they do not worship Yaksha-yakshinis like Padmavati devi etc.They believe that the concept of shaashan devi-devta was a later addition in jainism in the gupta period, due to the influence of brahminism.
The period when terapanth-digamber tradition took its shape was nearly the same when Sthanakwasi tradition started in Swetambers, who didn't believes in odol-worship.Similarly , Taaranpanth was started in the same time in digamber jainism in the budelkhand region, who also didn't believe in idol worship.
But, due to the emergence of terapanth in digamber tradition, most of the people accepted it rather than Taaranpanth which was against idol-worship.
Terapanth-digambers do idol-worship but in a very simple form.
