# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yashovijay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:04:57.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yashovijay"
name: "Yashovijay"
slug: "yashovijay"
description: "Yashovijaya, a seventeenth-century Jain philosopher-monk, was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was a thinker, prolific writer and commentator who had a strong and lasting influence on Jainism. He was a disciple of Muni Nayavijaya in the lineage of Jain monk Hiravijaya who influenced the Mughal Emperor Akbar to give up eating meat. He is also known as Yashovijayji with honorifics like Mahopadhyaya or Upadhyaya or Gani."
tagline: "17th century Jain monk from India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yashovijaya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1624"
deathDate: "1688"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.12
  momentum:             2.25
  historical:           5.472498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashovijaya"
    title: "Yashovijaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashovijaya"
    title: "Yashovijaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasovijaya"
    title: "Yasovijaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%C5%9Bowid%C5%BAaja_Suri_Upadhjaja"
    title: "Jaśowidźaja Suri Upadhjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF"
    title: "यशोविजय"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "യശോവിജയൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q773122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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