Prem Suri

Acharya Prem Suri
Personal
Born	Prem Chand 1884 Pindwara, Rajasthan, India
Died	22 May 1968 Khambat, Gujarat, India
Religion	Jainism
Sect	Śvetāmbara Murtipujaka

Prem Suri (1884 – 22 May 1968), né Prem Chand, was an Indian ascetic and philosopher of the Śvetāmbara sect of Jainism. He belonged to the Tapa Gaccha sub-sect of the religion.

Suri was born in 1884 in the village of Nandia in the Sirohi district in Rajasthan. In 1901, at the age of 17, he was initiated as a Jain monk by Dan Vijay Suri.

He was a prolific writer, having written such philosophical works on Jainism as in sanskrit he wrote Sankram Karanam in two parts containing four hundred pages in which he made very lucid exposition of the transformation of the karmas. Then he wrote a book named Karmasiddhi in which the existence of karmas was proved logically and authoritatively with the support of excerpts from many ancient works. He compiled the Marganādvāra, a voluminous work on Jainology defining Märganās and other technical words. He edited Karmaprakrti by Sivasarmasuri with the vast commentary of Malayagiri, Acharya Haribhadrasuri's Saddarśanasamuccaya with a very learned and lucid commentary by Gunaratnasuri and other several Sanskrit and Prakrit works on karma doctrine.In 1966, he published Khavagasedhi and Thiaibandho, each containing more than twenty thousand verses. Acharya Dansuri has given the title of Siddhanta Mahodadhi (Ocean of Principles) because of his profound knowledge on Karma Sahitya in 1935 and made him an Acharya in Radhanpur.

He died on 22 May 1968 at Khambhat, Gujarat. After his death, his tradition was divided into two schools, led by Ramachandra Suri and Bhuvanbhanu Suri respectively.

References

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"Sambharana suri prem na" book published in vs 2039.