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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
મુનિ શ્રી પુણ્યવિજ્યજી શ્રદ્ધાંજલિ-વિશેષાંક
(vy of the Hindu and Buddhist religions also. This equipped him for a real scholastic and intellectual treatment of the subjects he took for study.
Muniji who was called Manilal before he was initiated in February 1909 was born in Kapadvanj in Gujarat on 27th October 1895, but had his primary education in Bombay, where his father Dahyabhai Doshi had gone for earning his livelihood. Unfortunately his father died when Manilak, was only ten years old. His mother, thus widowed at the young age of only 27 years, was left alone with this son of ten years. She was very religious minded from the very beginning but this calamity made her far more indifferent to and detached from the worldy affairs. She sought to take atai and become a nun. But the question was : What to do with Manilal ? However, the desired happened and Manilal also developed an attitude and temperament to be consecrated as a monk. Muni Shri Chaturvijayji initiated him into monkhood. Within three days, after the son thus took to monkhood assuming the new name of Punyavijaya, the mother also became a nun and was called Sadhvi Ratanshri. Thereafter mother and son both lived in the fold, serving the Jaina faith and liberating their lives from karma.
Following the traditions of collection and research into the field of oriental learning, laid down by his Guru's Guru kantivijayji and his Guru Shri Chaturvijayji, he edited the Sanskrit play called #lgatianara, a drama of Muni Ramacandra, in 1917, just within eight years of his teat9a67. Thereafter during the last 54 years, he edited, collected and published several important works of many Acaryas of the earlier times. a8r4710 which he edited jointly with his Ja Muni Chaturvijayji with higiet and $147 was published in 6 volumes between the years 1933 and 1942. This was one of the most important works of Munishri. Among his other works which impressed the scholars in the country and abroad can be mentioed aucaferst, AGITTLE, sitilauki, जीतकल्पसूत्र, पवित्रकल्पसूत्र, कीर्तिकौमुदी, योगशतकम् , रामशतकम् , निघण्टुशेष and आख्यानकमणिकोष etc. His two volumes of the Catalogue of palam-leaf Manuscripts and three volumes of Catalogue of Sanskrit and prakrit Manuscripts provide valuable references for scholars. The last but not the least in the series of his contributions was the editing of the Jaina Agamas. It was at his initiative that the Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya of Bombay .undertook a project to publish critical texts of the Jaina Agamas under the joint
editorship of himself and Prof. Dalsukh Malvania. This scheme would epitomise the vast collection of his works. It was indeed a very comprehensive and
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