This biographical essay celebrates Pandit Sukhlal Sanghvi (1880–1978), a polymath whose erudition earned him the epithet “Blind Seer”. Born into a mercantile family in Gujarat, Sukhlalji contracted…
Muni Jinvijayaji (born Kishan Singh, 1888) emerged from humble origins in the Rajput village of Roopaheli to become one of the twentieth century’s most respected Jain scholars. After his father’s…
B.M. Singhi’s essay explores whether the teachings of Mahavira, the 24th Jain Tirthankara who lived in the sixth century BCE, are relevant in contemporary society. Singhi argues that the answer is…
1. Early Life and Monastic Initiation:
• Born in 1538 (Vikram 1595) in Khetsar, Jodhpur, to a wealthy merchant family.
• Initiated into monkhood at age 9 and became the head of the Kharatara gaccha…