Muni Jayanandvijay

Muni Jayananda vijay is an important Jain monk of the current age. He belongs to the “Soudhrma Vrahatta Tapagachcha 's” sub sect of the Tristutik gachcha of Shvetambar sect of Jainism. His full name is Muniraj shri JayanandaVijay ji Maharaj saheb. He is the successor of Acharya Vidhhachandra Surishwar ji m.s. He is the true tradinational successor of Ganadhar Sdharma Swami and the current monk/Muniraj of Tristutik Tapa Gachcha of Jainism. He has written several books on Jainism with more then 400 different title.
Biography
Muni Shri Jayanandavijay ji m.s is an Indian Jain scholar, poet, and polymath who wrote on philosophy, prosody, and contemporary history. He was Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries. He was born in Ahore town in the western Rajasthan,India.The Jain temple of Ahore Jain Tirtha is located at his birthplace.Also wellknown “Gyan-Bhandar”(the center of Jain books and literature).His bourn name was Ghevarchand Jain; as a young man, Ghevarchand was initiated as a monk at a Jain temple of Mohankheda (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh-India) and he took the name Muni Jayananda Vijay by Acharya Shrimad Vaijya Vidhhachandra surishwarji-The fifth successor or following Acharya of Acharya Rajendrasurishwarji M.S.. He is trained in religious discourse, philosophy, logic and grammar.He walked more then 1,00,000 km across Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat for prominent work of Jainism. He appealed to the masses by delivering his discourses in simple dialects of the people, the common spoken languages of the masses — Malwi, Gujarati, Marwari, etc. He inspired the Jain monks to study profoundly the Jain scriptures. He himself is devoted to the deep study of Jain works.
He is bitterly opposed to the storage of Jain works in isolated places; he eagerly desired to bring them to light for the propagation of Jainism. He himself wrote, collected, and edited certain important Jain works.
Books
Muni Jayanandavijay wrote, collected and edited certain important Jain works on current era of Jainism. He complied the famous Satya Ki Khoj, a book on all sect and customs of Jainism with references of Jain Aagam.

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