Muni Jayanandavijay (मुनिराज श्री जयानंदविजय) is an important Jain monk of the current age. He belongs to the “Soudhrma Vrahatta Tapagachcha's” sub-sect of the Tristutik gachcha of Shvetambar sect of Jainism. His full name is Muniraj shri JayanandaVijay ji Maharaj saheb. He is the successor of Acharya Vidhhachandra Surishwar ji m.s. He is the true traditional successor of Ganahar Sudharma Swami and the current monk/Muniraj of Tristutik Tapa Gachchha of Jainism. He is a prolific writer who has written more than 400 books, on various aspects of Jainism.

Biography

Muni Shri Jayanandavijay ji m.s is an Indian Jain scholar, poet, and polymath who wrote on philosophy, prosody, and contemporary history. He was noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries. He was born in Ahore town in the south western Rajasthan,India. The Jain temple of Ahore Jain Tirtha is located at his birthplace.

Also wellknown “Gyan-Bhandar”(the centre of Jain books and literature).

His born name was Ghevarchand Jain; as a young man, Ghevarchand was initiated as a monk at a Jain temple of Mohankheda (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh-India) and he took the name Muni Jayananda Vijay by Acharya Shrimad Vijya Vidhhachandra surishwarji, the fifth successor or following Acharya of Acharya Rajendrasuri.

He is trained in religious discourse, philosophy, logic and grammar. He walked more than 1,00,000 km across Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujrat for prominent work of Jainism. He appealed to the masses by delivering his discourses in simple dialects of the people, the common spoken languages of the masses — Malwi, Gujarati, Marwari, etc. He inspired the Jain monks to study profoundly the Jain scriptures. He himself is devoted to the deep study of Jain works.

He was bitterly opposed to the storage of Jain works in isolated places; he eagerly desired to bring them to light for the propagation of Jainism. He himself wrote, collected, and edited certain important Jain works.

References

• "Smagra Jain Chaturmas Suchi-2007" by Babulal Jain,Kandivali East Mumbai-400101,India.