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Acharya Vimal Sagar
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 14 December 2016, in his birth centenary year, for Acharya Vimal Sagar (1916–1994), the Digambar Jain monk. He was born on 18 September 1916 at Kosma in Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, to Biharilal and Katori Devi, who named him Nemichandra after the Tirthankara Neminath. He studied at the Morena Sanskrit Vidyalaya, a centre of traditional Jain learning, and became known locally as a healer in the Indian system of medicine.
The Path of Renunciation
Drawn to the spiritual life, he came into contact with Acharya Shantisagar, the first Digambar Jain acharya of the twentieth century. He became a kshullak in 1950 at Badwani, then an ailak, and on 26 February 1953 at Sonagir was initiated as a Digambar muni, Vimal Sagar; he was made an acharya at Tundla on 5 November 1960. Walking barefoot, as Jain monks do, he travelled more than 50,000 kilometres across India preaching ahimsa, aparigraha and anekanta as the way to world peace.
The stamp was designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.403 million.
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