# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jinasena
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:26:30.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jinasena"
name: "Jinasena"
slug: "jinasena"
description: "Acharya Jinasena was a prominent Digambar Jain monk, scholar, and religious leader in 8th-century India He is widely known for composing the Adipurana and Mahapurana, considered the foundational texts of Jain Sanskrit literature, and for serving as the royal spiritual advisor to the Rashtrakuta emperor Amoghavarsha. He also finished the Jaidhavala commentary started by his guru Virasena. He is distinct from the earlier Jinasena, the author of Harivamsa Purana, who belonged to the Punnata Sangh, another branch of Digambar Jainism which describes the Jain tradition about Shri Krishna corresponding to the Hindu tradition given in the epic Mahabharata."
tagline: "8th/9th-century CE Indian Jain monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Digambar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "783"
deathDate: "838"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.4
  momentum:             11.14285714285715
  historical:           5.080778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE_II"
    title: "ਜਿਨਸੇਨਾ II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinasena"
    title: "Jinasena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "जिनसेन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جن سین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BAinasena"
    title: "Dźinasena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜினசேனர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6202033"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump