Umakant Premanand Shah is a scholar from India.
Life
Umakant was born in
Baroda
Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...
on 20 March 1915. He completed his doctoral thesis on 'Elements of Jaina Art'. He became the deputy director of
Oriental Institute, Baroda in 1954. He became the head of Ramayana Project at the institute in 1965.
Shah died in November 1988.
Works
Umakant P Shah is credited with 62 works in 147 publications in 2 languages and 951 library holdings.
His works on
Jainism
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle bein ...
includes "Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography".
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Scholars of Jainism
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