Acharya Gyansagar

Acharya Gyansagar, the Digambara Jain acharya and Sanskrit poet who initiated Acharya Vidyasagar.

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Date of issue September 10, 2013

Denomination Rs. 5

Quantity printed 460000

Printer Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

Perforation 13¾

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Wet Offset

Credit Smt. Alka Sharma

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2783 Yvert et Tellier IN 2490 Stanley Gibbons IN 2965 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN095.2013

Themes Authors, Famous people, Literary People (Poets and Writers), Literature, Men, People

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Acharya Gyansagar

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 10 September 2013 for Acharya Gyansagar (died 1973), a Digambara Jain acharya of the twentieth century who composed many Sanskrit epics. Born Bhoormal Chhawda at Ranoli in Sikar district, Rajasthan, he gave up his studies after his father’s death to support his family before turning to the monastic life. He initiated Acharya Vidyasagar as a monk in 1968 and made him an acharya in 1972.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.