The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1231 page)

in Kani
ka's capital of Puru
apura (Pesh
war).
2
A class of Hindu deities of the fourteenth
manvantara
(cf.
Manu
).

 
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K
nji Sv
mi Panth
.

Jain movement named after its founder, K
nji Sv
mi, born in Gujarat of
vet
mbara parents in 1889. When he was about 30, he read
Kundakunda's
Samayas
ra
(Essence of Doctrine), which opened him to the possibility that the
Digambara
way was the true one. In 1934, he renounced his status as a
vet
mbara monk and became a Digambara layman. This took place at Songadh which remains the centre of the movement derived from him. He became an indefatigable preacher, mainly commenting on the works of Kunda-kunda and taking even further his stress on the primacy of the realization of the true soul (
param
tman
) over all external observances, vows, and rituals. The Panth is a mainly lay movement, though there are some brahmacharis (ascetics). The Panth is missionary and has adherents in many countries round the world.