Mahopadhya Yashovijaya Ji Maharaja | |
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Personal life | |
Born | 1624 |
Died | 1688 (aged 63–64) |
Religious life | |
Religion | Jainism |
Sect | Śvetāmbara |
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Yashovijaya (IAST: Yaśovijaya, 1624–1688), a seventeenth-century Jain philosopher-monk, was a notable Indian philosopher and logician. He was a thinker, prolific writer and commentator who had a strong and lasting influence on Jainism.[1] He was a disciple of Muni Nayavijaya in the lineage of Jain monk Hiravijaya (belonging to the Tapa Gaccha tradition of Śvetāmbara Jains) who influenced the Mughal Emperor Akbar to give up eating meat.[2] He is also known as Yashovijayji with honorifics like Mahopadhyaya or Upadhyaya or Gani.