Jinamanjari 1996 09 No 14

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

Page 85

Todaramala of Jaipur was a Jaina philosophermathematician. His commentaries in Dhundhari (a dialect of Rajasthan) on the celebrated Jaina works of the Gommutasara, Labdhisara and Ksapanasara are of great value. He also wrote the Bhasa Vacaanika in Dhundhari, wherein he describes, amongst other things, the eight well-known fundamental operations of mathematics.
Mahaviracarya was an eminent Jaina mathematician in ancient times. He was a contemporary of King Amoghavarsha, and enjoyed his patronage. In his text the Ganitasarasamgraha, a text which was used for several centuries throughout South India, Mahaviracarya has skilfully condensed all the known mathematics of his day.
Today there are still a good many Jaina mathematicians whose contributions are of immense importance to the continuous growth and development of mathematics. The purpose of this paper is to introduce one such talented mathematician, Professor L.C. Jain.
Laxmi Chandra Jain was born on July 1, 1926 in Saugar of Madhya Pradesh, India. His father was Damru Lal Jain, and his mother was Chameli Bai Jain. He had a brilliant multifaceted academic career comprising of learning, teaching, preaching, and also worked as an able administrator. He obtained his Master's degree in Applied Mathematics form the University of Saugar in 1949. He also got a diploma from the State council of Homeopathy of Bhopal in 1971. During the years 1951 to 1981, L.C. Jain was in the teaching faculty of Madhya Pradesh State Education Service which included different Government Colleges at Nagpur, Jabalpur, Balaghat, and Khandwa. His final posting was as the Principal Government Post-Graduate College at Chindwara during 19811984. Since this time he has been the Honorary Director of the Acharya Vidyasagara Research Institute, in the Pisanhari Hills of Jabalpur.