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Acharya Mahashraman (IAST: Ācārya Mahāśramaṇa; born 13 May 1962) is the eleventh Acharya, supreme head of Jain Śvetāmbara Terapanth sect. [2] Mahashraman heads all activities functioning under Terapanth organisation, most notably Anuvrat, Preksha Meditation, Jeevan Vigyan (Science Of Living). [3] All the Terapanth sub-organisations ...
Acharya Mahapragya died on 9 May 2010 at 2:52 pm (aged 89) in Sardarshahar, in Churu district, the place where he gained monkhood. Subsequently, Acharya Mahashraman was chosen the 11th acharya of Jain Terapanth, previously Acharya Mahapragya had made Acharya Shri Mahashraman the Yuvacharya of the Terapanth sect at Gangashahar in 1997. [81]
With a history of over 200 years, [8] the sect has had only eleven Acharyas, with the current supreme head being Acharya Shri Mahashraman ji, who is the eleventh Acharya. The sect consists of over 850 monks, nuns, Samans, and Samanis (a rank between ascetics and lay-followers) who adhere to strict codes of discipline, and has millions of ...
This article contains a list of Marathi writers arranged in the English alphabetical order of the writers' last names. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The early Marathi literature emerged during the Seuna (Yadava) rule, because of which some scholars have theorized that it was produced with support from the Yadava rulers. [4] The Yadavas did regard Marathi as a significant language for connecting with the general public, [ 5 ] and Marathi replaced Kannada and Sanskrit as the dominant language ...
Acharya VidyasagaraJi was a scholar of Sanskrit and Prakrit and knew several languages including Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and English. [38] He wrote in languages such as Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Hindi. His works include Niranjana Shataka , Bhavana Shataka , Parishah Jaya Shataka , Suniti Shataka and Shramana Shataka .
Rambhadracharya is a scholar of 14 languages and can speak 22 languages in total, [17] [18] [23] including Sanskrit, Hindi, English, French, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Oriya, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Magadhi, Awadhi, and Braj. [14] He has composed poems and literary works in many Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Awadhi.
Vinoba Bhave was a scholar, thinker, and writer who produced numerous books. He was a translator who made Sanskrit texts accessible to the common man. He was also an orator and linguist with an excellent command of several languages (Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, English, and Sanskrit). Bhave was an innovative social reformer.