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{{Infobox religious biography
| birth_name = Kishansinh Parmar
| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|1|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rupaheli, [[Mewad]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|6|3|1888|1|27|df=y}}
| religion = [[Jainism]]
| sect = [[Śvētāmbara]]
| subsect = [[Sthānakavāsī]]
| occupation = Scholar of [[orientalism]], [[archeology]], [[indology]] and [[Jainism]]
| nationality = Indian
}}
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'''Muni Jinvijayji''' (27 January 1888 ― 3 June 1976) was a scholar of [[orientalism]], [[archeology]], [[indology]] and [[Jainism]] from India.

==Biography==
Jinvijay was born in Rupaheli, Mewad near [[Udaipur]] on 27 January 1888 to Vriddhisinh and Rajkumari. His birth name was Kishansinh Parmar. He lost his parents at early age and after his contact with Muni Devihans, he was interested in Jainism. He was initiated as [[Sthanakvasi]] Jain monk in 1903. He was later initiated in ''Samvegi'' order of [[Shvetambara]] Jain monk and was given new name, Muni Jinvijay. He learned [[Sanskrit]] and [[Prakrit]] literature under Kantivijay, a Jain ascetic from [[Patan, Gujarat]].<ref name=gsp>{{cite web|url=http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/photo-gallery/sahitya-sarjako/Muni-Jinvijayji.html|language =gu |title=Muni Jinvijayji|work=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] |access-date =15 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1258|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|page=1839}}</ref><ref name="Vishwakosh">{{cite web | title=Jinvijayji | website=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh]] | url=http://vishwakosh.org/vishvakosh/lekh/jinvijayji.html | language=gu | access-date=7 April 2017}}</ref>

Being bored of conventional life of ascetic, he renounced monkhood and decided to live as a professor.<ref name="JhaveriAkademi1978">{{cite book|author=Mansukhlal Maganlal Jhaveri|author-link=Mansukhlal Maganlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA0RAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 August 2014|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=162}}</ref> He joined [[Gujarat Vidyapith]] as a principal of archeology department for few years on invitation of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref name="Sharma1992">{{cite book|author=Sita Ram Sharma|title=Gujarati|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IVhAAAAMAAJ|access-date=6 August 2014|year=1992|publisher=Anmol Publications|isbn=978-81-7041-545-9|page=2}}</ref> He went to Germany in 1928 to study [[Indology]]. He returned to India in 1929. He participated in the [[Salt March]] of [[Indian independence movement]] in 1930 and was imprisoned at [[Nasik Jail]] where he met [[K. M. Munshi]]. He joined [[Shantiniketan]] as a professor of Jain literature and taught there from 1932 to 1936. He headed archeology department of [[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]] in 1939. He became honorary director of [[Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute]] in 1950. He served as a head of history and archeology department of [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]].<ref name="Chavda1982">{{cite book|author=V. K. Chavda|title=Modern Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIluAAAAMAAJ|access-date=6 August 2014|year=1982|publisher=New Order Book Company|page=92}}</ref> He retired in 1967. He died following lung cancer on 3 June 1976 at [[Ahmedabad]].<ref name=gsp/><ref name="Datta1988"/><ref name="Vishwakosh"/>

==Works==
He had published more than 20 books and edited and translated several others.<ref name=gsp/><ref name="ChokshiTrivedi1991">{{cite book|author1=U. M. Chokshi|author2=M. R. Trivedi|title=Gujarat State Gazetteer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wKLiAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Director, Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|page=398}}</ref><ref name="Datta1988"/><ref name="Vishwakosh"/>

===Selected works===
* ''A catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute : Jodhpur collection''
* ''[[Prabandha Kosha|Prabandhakośa]]'' (editor)
* ''[[Prabandha-Chintamani|Prabandhacintāmaṇi]]'' (editor)
* ''[[Puratana Prabandha Sangraha]]'' (editor), 1936
* ''Kumārapāla caritrasaṃgraha''
* ''Karṇāmṛta-prapā''
* ''Hetubinduṭīkā''
* ''Auktikapada''
* ''Uktiyaka''
* ''[[Sandesh Rasak]]'', 1945

==Recognition ==
He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 1961 for his contributions in field of literature and education.<ref name="Vishwakosh"/>

==References ==
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==External links==
* * {{Internet Archive author|search=Muni Jinvijay}}

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