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{{Infobox religious biography|
|name= Sahityacharya Pandit Pannalal Jain
|image= PtPannalaSagar.jpg
|alt =
|caption = Bust of Pt Pannalal Jain holding a pen, in Namakmandi, Sagar.
| religion = [[Jainism]]
|birth_date={{birth date |df=yes|1911|3|5}}
|birth_place =Parguwan, [[Sagar District]], Madhya Pradesh
|death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2001|3|9|1911|3|5}}
|death_place=[[Kundalpur]], Madhya Pradesh
|guru=Shiksha-Guru Dayachandra Shastri and [[Ganeshprasad Varni]]
|philosophy=Jain
|honors=[[Sahityacharyacharya]], PhD
|literary_works = ''Mahapurana'' (195?) etc.
|footnotes=
}}

Sahityacharya Dr. Pandit '''Pannalal Jain''' (1911–2001) was a distinguished [[Jain]] scholar.<ref>बहुमुखी प्रतिभा के धनी थे साहित्याचार्य पं. पन्नालाल जैन. Matrix News, 4 March 2011, www.bhaskar.com/</ref><ref>नर्इ पीढ़ी के लिए साहित्य में मिलने वाले सम्मान की तरफ इषारा, प्रतिमा अनावरण, 17.11.06 http://gyansagarji.com/?page_id=249{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>जयंती पर पंडितजी के व्यक्तित्व पर चर्चा, http://www.pradeshtoday.com/newsdetails.php?news=NSS-camp-concludes&nid=35143 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135940/http://www.pradeshtoday.com/newsdetails.php?news=NSS-camp-concludes&nid=35143 |date=12 June 2018 }}</ref><ref>http://www.bhaskar.com › Madhya Pradesh
16 July 2012 – राजेश जैन के बड़े भाई प्रकाशचंद जैन का रविवार की सुबह निधन</ref>
Dr. Kasturchand Kasliwal has regarded him as among the 20 most distinguished of the Jain scholars of 20th century<ref>Kasturchand Kasliwal, Jain Samaj ka Vrihad Itihas, Jain Itihas Prakashan Sansthan, Jaipur, 1969, p. 42</ref> His teaching career spanned 70 years, from 1931 to 2001.<ref>Ratanchandra Jain, Svarnayuga ke pratinidhi ka mahaprayan, Jina Bhashita, April 2001, p. 1,</ref>

==Life==

He was the son of Gallilal and Jankibai of Parguvan, a small village in [[Sagar district|Sagar]], born in 1911. He moved to Sagar with his mother after the death of his father in 1919. Pannalal studied at the famous institute in Sagar, "Sattarka Sudha Tarangini
Sanskrit Pathashala", now Ganesh Varni Sanskrit Vidyalaya, founded by [[Ganeshprasad Varni]]. For a long time Pannalaji also taught there. He was married in 1931, same year he was appointed as a teacher at the Vidyalaya.
Later he studied at [[Syadvadad Mahavidyalaya]] in Varanasi. He earned Sahityacharya degree in 1936. He spent most of his life in Sagar as the guiding scholar at Sattarka Sudha Tarangini Sanskrit Pathashala, later known as Ganesh Digambar Jain Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, at Moraji, Sagar, from 1933 to 1983. After retiring he taught at Varni Digambar Jain Gurukul at Jabalpur until 8 January 2001.

He edited both volumes of the well known autobiography [[Meri Jivan Gatha]] by [[Kshullak]] [[Ganeshprasad Varni]] which were published in 1949 and 1960.<ref>Meri Jivan Gatha, Ganeshprasad Varni, 1949, Shri Ganeshprasad Varni Jain Granthmala, Varanasi.</ref><ref>Meri Jivan Gatha, Dvitiya Bhag, Ganeshprasad Varni, 1960, Shri Ganeshprasad Varni Jain Granthmala, Varanasi</ref> He also edited Shri Ganeshprasad Varni Smriti Granth in 1974.<ref>Shri Ganeshprasad Varni Smriti Granth, Bharatiya Digambar jain Vidvatparishad, Ed. Pannalal Sahityacharya, Niraj Jain, 1974.</ref>

He had served as a guide to prominent monks and nuns. He assisted [[Acharya Vidyasagar]] in starting discourses on [[Dhavala]] texts in Sagar in 1980. He often advised [[Aryika]] [[Niraj Jain#Family|Vishuddhamati]] when she headed the Mahilashram at Sagar. He was also associated with the Jain institutions at [[Dronagiri]] and Bada Malahara. In 1955, he helped organize the historic [[Gajrath]] as Prachar Mantri.<ref>Sahityacharya pannalal Jain Abhinandan Granth, p. 2.71</ref> He also assisted in the Gajrath festival at Khajuraho in 1981. He was associated with the Digambar Jain Vidyaparishad, a leading council of scholars, during 1946 to 1985.

A simple, gentle and unassuming traditional scholar, he was awarded a PhD by Sagar University in 1973 for his work on Mahakavi Harichand.<ref>Sahityacharya D. Pandit Pannalal Jain Abhinandan Deepika, Ed. Jain, Jyoti Prasad, Bhagchandfra Bhagendu, Bharatiya Shruti Darshana Kendra, Jaipur, 1989</ref>

He was honoured by the President of India for his educational contributions to teaching of Sanskrit in 1969.

== Works ==

Jain is best known for his translations and commentaries of Sanskrit Puranic literature including [[Mahapurana (Jainism)|Mahapurana]], Uttarapurana, and Padmapurana.

He has also composed several vratodyapana texts based on classical Sanskrit sources.

He was given title Vidya-Varidhi (meaning the ocean of learning) by
the Sagar shravakas in 1976.

He was a prolific author. His works
* Samyakavta Chintamani (1983 Mahavir Puraskar)
* Jivandhar Champu, (1959–60 Mitra award, MP Sahitya Parishad)
* Gadya Chintamani (1972 Dhaulpur, Dig. Jain Vidvatparishad) and
* Purudeva Champu (1974 Indore)
were given special awards by literary organisations.

Arhat-Vachan Journal commented on his death: "by his
departure, a leading lighthouse of 20th century of the Jain scholarly
tradition has fallen."

==Memorial and legacy==
On 8 March 2001, at the [[Kundalpur]] Tirth, in the shadow of Lord [[Rishabhanatha|Adinath Bade Baba]], Pannalal Jain laid down his body, having entered his final meditation.
In Sagar, the street passing through the centrally located Namak Mandi has been named Sahityacharya Pandit Pannalal Jain Marg, which has a bust in the middle of the road. His statue has been placed on Namak mandi tiraha, one way.

[[Achala Jain]], who wrote her dissertation on his contributions to Sanskrit literature, was awarded a PhD by the Indore University.<ref>[https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/sagar/news/MAT-MP-SAG-c-25-380563-NOR.html संस्कृत भाषा के संरक्षण और संवर्धन की आवश्यकता है : ब्रह्मचारी डी. राकेश भैया, साहित्याचार्य डॉ. पंडित पन्नालाल जैन की 103वीं जन्म जयंती पर कटरा नमकमंडी स्थित कीर्ति स्तंभ के समीप प्रतिमा स्थल पर कार्यक्रम हुआ, Bhaskar News Network, 6 March 2014]</ref>

The organisation [[Pannalal Jain Smararak Samiti]] honours Sanskrit scholars in Sagar.<ref>[https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/sagar/news/MAT-MP-SAG-c-25-349704-NOR.html आर्यिका संघ के सानिध्य में निकली श्रीजी की पालकी शोभायात्रा, Matrix News, 23 September 2013]</ref>

[[Jain Muni Pratyakshsagar]] was his grandson.<ref>समाधि साधना के लिए इंद्रियों पर काबू होना चाहिए, Apna Hindustan, http://jain.apnahindustan.com/?p=2204{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, मुनि श्री प्रत्यक्ष सागर जी महाराज के गृहस्थ जीवन के नाना पं. पन्नालाल जी साहित्याचार्य थे।</ref>

==References==
===Citations===
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===Sources===
* {{citation |editor-last=Jain |editor-first=Pannalal |editor-link=Pannalal Jain |title=Mahapurana Adipurana of Bhagavata Jinasenacharya |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.327048 |year=1951 |publisher=[[Bharatiya Jnanapitha]] |ref={{sfnref|Pannalal Jain|1951}} }}

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