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| honorific-prefix = [[Acharya]]<br />
| image = File:Jain Acharya Muni Manatunga.jpg<br />
| alt = Manatunga<br />
| caption = Jain Acharya Muni Manatunga riciting [[Bhaktamara Stotra]] while being tied up under chains and 48 locks.<br />
| religion = [[Jainism]]<br />
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| birth_date = 7th century CE<br />
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{{Jainism}}<br />
[[File:Mantunga Acharya Shrine, Bhojpur, Madhya Pradesh.jpg|thumb|Mantunga Acharya Shrine, Bhojpur, Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
'''Acharya Manatunga''' (c. seventh century CE) was the composer of famous Jain prayer, ''[[Bhaktamara Stotra]]''. ''Acharya Manatunga'' is said to have composed the ''Bhaktamara Stotra'' when he was ordered to be kept in prison for not obeying the orders of King [[Mihira Bhoja|Bhoja]] to appear in his royal court. He was kept in the prison tied up under chains and 48 locks, and upon chanting the Bhaktamara Stotra all the 48 locks were broken and Acharya Manatunga miraculously came out of the prison.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Manatunga (c. seventh century CE) was the composer of famous Jain prayer, ''[[Bhaktamara Stotra]]''.{{sfn|Vijay K. Jain|2013|p=193}}{{sfn|Vijay K. Jain|2012|p=xi}} ''Acharya Manatunga'' is said to have composed the ''Bhaktamara Stotra'' when he was ordered to be kept in prison for not obeying the orders of King [[Mihira Bhoja|Bhoja]] to appear in his royal court. He was kept in the prison tied up under chains and 48 locks, and upon chanting the [[Bhaktamara Stotra]] all the 48 locks were broken and Acharya Manatunga miraculously came out of the prison after attaining self realization.{{cn|date=April 2020}}<br />
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* {{citation |last=Jain |first=Vijay K. |authorlink=Vijay K. Jain |title=Acharya Amritchandra's Purushartha Siddhyupaya: Realization of the Pure Self, With Hindi and English Translation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4iyUu4Fc2-YC |date=2012 |publisher=[[Vikalp Printers]] |isbn=978-81-903639-4-5 |quote={{PD-notice}} |ref={{sfnref|Vijay K. Jain|2012}} }}<br />
* {{citation |last=Jain |first=Vijay K. |authorlink=Vijay K. Jain |title=Ācārya Nemichandra's Dravyasaṃgraha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9CJ3jZpcqYC |date=2013 |quote={{PD-notice}} |publisher=[[Vikalp Printers]] |isbn=9788190363952 |ref={{sfnref|Vijay K. Jain|2013}} }}<br />
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