Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania

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| name = Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1910|07|22}}

| birth_place = Sayla, Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India

| death_date = 2000

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Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania (1910–2000) was an Indian scholar, writer and philosopher, known for his writings on Jain, Buddhist and Hindu philosophies.{{cite web | url=http://www.jainpedia.org/resources/glossary.html?tx_contagged%5Bsource%5D=default&tx_contagged%5Buid%5D=504&cHash=c15eb993f59c37b623bd36c7d7f39da2 | title=Pandit Dalsukh D. Malvania | publisher=Jainpedia | date=2016 | access-date=21 May 2016}} He contributed to Jain literature with his writings on the scriptures of the Śvētāmbara sect of Jainism.{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-28419/ | title=Malvania, Dalsukh Bhai on WorldCat | publisher=WorldCat | date=2016 | access-date=21 May 2016}} The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1992, for his contributions to literature and education.{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}

Biography

Dalsukh Malvania was born on 22 July 1910 at Sayla, in the Surendranagar district of the Indian state of Gujarat{{cite web | url=http://en.encyclopediaofjainism.com/index.php?title=SHRI_DALSUKH_D._MALVANIA. | title=Dalsukh Malvania | publisher=Encyclopedia of Jainism | work=Encyclopedic article | date=2016 | access-date=21 May 2016 | archive-date=9 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809191933/http://en.encyclopediaofjainism.com/index.php?title=SHRI_DALSUKH_D._MALVANIA. | url-status=dead }} in a Jain family.{{cite web | url=http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainscholars.html | title=List of Jain Scholars in India | publisher=Colorado State University | date=2016 | access-date=21 May 2016}} After completing Nyayatirtha in 1931, he joined the Banaras Hindu University as a faculty member and worked there till he moved to the L. D. Institute of Indology of the Gujarat University as its director in 1959. He was associated with several literary societies and organizations such as the Prakrit Text Society, the Jain Cultural Research Society, Jain Sahitya Nirman Yojana, Prakrit Vidya Mandal and was a visiting professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Sambodhi, twelve-volume recreation of the ancient scripture,{{cite book | title=Sambodhi | publisher=Ulan Press | author=Dalsukh Malvania | year=2012 | pages=418 | asin=B00AIGSF30}} Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies{{cite book | title=Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass | author=Dalsukh Malvania, Jayendra Soni, Karl H. Potter (Editors) | year=2007 | pages=828 | isbn=978-8120831698}} and Evolution of Indian Philosophies,{{cite book | title=Evolution of Indian Philosophies | publisher=D.K. Printworld |author1=Soni Jayendra |author2=Dalsukh Malvania | year=2007 | asin=B0049VU4DO}} both running into multiple volumes, and Jainism : some essays{{cite book|author=Dalsukh D. Malvania|title=Jainism : some essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXTejgEACAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Prakrit Bharti Acad. u}} are some of his notable works. He also published many articles on Jainism and Indian philosophy, including Beginnings of Jaina Philosophy in the Acàraňga,{{cite book|author=Johannes Bronkhorst|title=The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZbZDP8MRJoC&pg=PA145|year=1993|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-1114-0|pages=145–}} The Word Pǖjā and its Meaning{{cite journal | url=http://www.indologica.com/volumes/vol14/vol14_art17_MALVANIA.pdf | title=The Word Pǖjā and its Meaning | author=Dalsukh Malvania | journal=Indologica | volume=14 | issue=17}} and On Bhadreshwara's Kahāvali.{{cite journal | url=http://www.indologica.com/volumes/vol11/vol11_art02_MALVANIA.pdf | title=On Bhadreshwara's Kahāvali | author=Dalsukh Malvania | journal=Indologica | volume=11 | issue=2}} He was a recipient of the civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 1992. He died in 2000 at the age of 90.