Prem Suri (1884 – 22 May 1968),

né The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Prem Chand, was an Indian ascetic and philosopher of the

Śvetāmbara The Śvetāmbara (; also spelled Shwetambara, Shvetambara, Svetambara or Swetambara) is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara. ''Śvetāmbara'' in Sanskrit means "white-clad", and refers to its ascetics' practi ...

sect of

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. He belonged to the

Tapa Gaccha Tapa Gaccha is the largest Gaccha (monastic order) of Śvetāmbara Jainism. More than half of the existing Jain ascetics belong to the Tapa Gaccha. Several successful Sanskrit scholars belonged to Tapa Gaccha, including Hiravijaya, Meghavijaya, ...

sub-sect of the religion. Suri was born in 1884 in the village of Nandia in the

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. 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 ''Sankram Karanam'' and ''Karmasiddhi.'' In 1966 he published ''Khavagasedhi'' and ''Thiaibandho'', each containing more than twenty thousand verses. He died on 22 May 1968 at

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, Gujarat. After his death, his tradition was divided into two schools, led by Ramachandra Suri and Bhuvanbhanu Suri respectively.

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