Option c is the correct answer. Statement a is incorrect- Jainism was spread in South India under the leadership of Bhadrabahu especially in Karnataka. He lived in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. Statement b is incorrect- The Jains who remained under the leadership of Bhadrabahu were called Digambaras after the Council held at Pataliputra Statement c is correct- Kharavela was the king of Kalinga, the present-day Odisha. He ruled from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century BCE. He was a follower of Jainism and he patronized the religion. He built many Jain temples and he donated money to Jain institutions. Statement d is incorrect- At first, Jains didn't worship statues, just like the Buddhists. But later on, they started to worship Mahavira and the twenty-three tirthankaras. They made big, pretty stone statues for this reason, mostly in places like Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.