Ganeshprasad Varni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Jain religious scholar
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Place of Birth: Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Ganeshprasad Varni
- Kshullak Ganeshprasad Varni (Hindi:????? 105 ???? ???? ?????? ?????, Gujarati: ???? ??? ???????? ?????????? ????? Kannada:???? ??? ???????? ?????????? ?????) (1874 – 5 December 1961) was one of the foundational figures of the modern Indian Digambara intellectual tradition during the early 20th century.
- He was the founder of several schools and institutions of advanced learning including Syadvad Mahavidyalaya at Varanasi in 1905, Varanasi and Satark-Sudhataringini Digamber Jain Pathshala, now Ganesh Digamber Jain Sanskrit Vidyalaya at Sagar. Many of the Jain scholars today are products of the institutions found by Ganeshprasad Varni.
- Sahajananda Varni was one of his disciples.
- While Jinendra Varni never heard him speaking, he was deeply influenced by him and had compiled a volume "Varni Darshan" to commemorate Ganeshprasad Varni's birth centenary in 1975.
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