Pandit Todarmal

Born at V. S. 1797 in Jaipur. His father  was Jogidas of the Godika section of the Khandelwal Digambar Jain sect. His mother was Rambhabai. He was the only son of his parents. His elder son was Harishchandra and younger Gumaniram. His prose style is pure, fully developed and comprehensible. He had extraordinary control over the language. He was a great scholar of Prakrit and Sanskrit, along with Hindi. He possessed wonderful memory. At the age of about ten, he obtained deep knowledge of difficult subjects like Samaysar, Panchastikaya, Pravachansar, Niyamsar, Gommattasar, Labdhisar, Triloksar, Tattvhrtha Sutra, Kshapanasar, Purusharthasiddhi-upaya, Ashtapahud, Atmanushasan and works on the conduct of Jainism and householders and those that describe the life stories of great kings and others engaged in the pursuit of the soul."

His teacher was Vanshidharji., He died at the early age of about 47 years on account of communal dissensions.

Some of his prose and poetic works are available.

Gommatsar Karmakand
Labdhisar, Kshapanasar
Triloksar
Atmanushasan
Arthasandrishti Vichar
Mokshamarg Prakashak
Rahasyapurna Chitthi

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