Harivallabh Bhayani

Harivallabh Chunilal Bhayani (26 May 1917 – 11 November 2000) was a linguist, researcher, critic and translator from India. Bhayani was born on 26 May 1917 in Mahuva to Dasa Shrimali Jain Sthanakvasi family of Chunilal. His parents died when he was young and was raised by his grandmother. He passed his matriculation in 1934 from M. N. High School in Mahuva. He went to Samaldas College, Bhavnagar and completed B. A. in Sanskrit in 1939. He completed M. A. in Sanskrit and Ardhamagadhi from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay in 1941. He married Chandrakala in 1950. He completed his thesis on Paumachariya, an epic poetry in Apabhramsha by Swayambhudev, and received Ph.D. under guidance of Muni Jinvijay in 1951. He was also influenced by Ralph Lilley Turner during this period. He was a professor at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan from 1945 to 1965. He returned to Ahmedabad and joined School of Languages, Gujarat University. He taught there from 1965 to 1975. He voluntarily retired in 1975. He served as an honorary professor at Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology. He also served at International School of Dravidian Linguistics in 1980. He received honorary fellowship of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 1993. In 1993, he co-founded Anusandhan, a journal featuring Jain literary works. He died on 11 November 2000 in Mumbai, India.