Ātmārāmjī

Ātmārāmjī (born 1837, Lahera, Punjab—died 1896, Gujranwala, Punjab) , important Jain reformer and revivalist monk. He was born a Hindu but as a child came under the influence of Sthānakavāsī Jain monks and was initiated as a Sthānakavāsī monk in 1854. He was renowned for his prodigious memory and intellectual skills. He pursued an independent study of Jain texts, in particular the Sanskrit commentaries on the Jain canon, commentaries which at that time Sthānakavāsī monks...