 my topic, like autobiographical and biographical accounts of Acharya Tulsi. So, first of all, if I'm talking about the autobiography and biography, it is a special historical genre. And in this genre, I would like to give a brief account of the biographies in Tirupant because this is a long tradition and it is written, the first biography of Acharya Bhikshu, Bhikshu Just Roshayan in Marwadi, then Bharimal Charitta, sorry, and Rishirai Suggest by Jaya Acharya. And these all three biographies are in Marwadi and especially in poetry form. Then Jaya Suggest by Acharya Magva, and it is also in verses. Then Acharya Tulsi during his time, he took that old Acharya should have their own biographies and he took account and he did monarch. There is a great history of biographies and autobiography in Tirupant. But in this genre, especially in 2008, Balbir Raut, to my knowledge, religious autobiographies from Jain media have not yet attached. Any attention beyond the Jain circle and it is very true. Very few people knew about it and very few autobiographies came into the light because writing an autobiography is not an easy task. Acharya Tulsi also accepted it and writing an autobiography, it means a person should disclose himself from the inner core of his own being and that is sometimes it is not easy to every person. So Acharya Tulsi's autobiography and that is known as Mera Jeevan Mera Darsan, My Life, My Vision. Acharya Tulsi, the ninth head of Tirupant, born on 20th October 1914 and is passed away on 23rd June 1997. And this autobiography is edited by Sadvi Prabhukha Kanak Prabha and volumes released 18 and published by Adarsh Sahitya Sangchuru and first published in 2002 and then one one volume every time so until 2011 all published. Mera Jeevan Mera Darsan, read some question. Is it a biography or an autobiography or a memoir? Because the author himself didn't draw old autobiographies, only 30 pages were written by Acharya Tulsi and those are not only written but he's given dictations. So it is a memoir or sometime you see it is not actually an memoir because it is beyond than that. There are more than experiences and there is something special day today so I'm not accepting it as a memoir or collection of the diaries. So it is a diary and in a diary if you go through the diary there should be some issues day by day. So here in his diary we can feel there is a gap sometime one day, two days, one week, two days, week or sometime it is for one month. So sometime it is a question is it a real diary or not. Now the third point it is editor's justification because Sadvi Pramukha in his life took this decision that she should edit and he given an order to her that you will be an editor of my old diaries. So in this position she says that these diaries Acharya Tulsi started in 1950 till 1997 and it is this autobiography My Meera Jeevan Meera Darshan is not only based on the diaries but there is some contribution in different, different felicitations, volumes where it is written about Acharya Tulsi by different aesthetics and schoolers and some journals they also provide material for this biography and autobiography. Acharya Tulsi's diaries in 1950s and he started it in Haryana a town known as Hansi and the last day even in the last day of his death he wrote his diary and one week before he wrote, oh it is time I did lot of things and my health is not good and I should do fasting unto death. It is mentioned in his diary but he couldn't fulfil his desire because that occurred so soon, sudden that his desire remained unfulfilled fasting unto death and his diaries is a huge record of historical journeys being a Jain Acharya, Jain monk, he travelled far and wide throughout India more than 80,000 kilometres. Every year for Chaturmas for rainy retreat he stayed four months in a place but rest of the eight months is always moving so he travelled and during this travelling there is so many things he included about the geography about the history of towns, city, historical places and also the people, their behaviour so these diaries are I think a treasure of huge knowledge, vast knowledge of mankind of history, geography and other subjects and specially these 18 volumes of Mera Jeevan Mera Darshan not published with the reference of each day with the stick to the diary so it is very clear that we cannot accept it as a diary form and it is not a biography because Sadhvi Pramkha choose to write in first person's voice because the first volume which is completed by Acharya Tulsi himself but the rest of all these volumes were written in the same pattern and Acharya Sadhvi Pramkha tried to keep her position as an auditor Acharya Tulsi said, I have had this tendency to do something different innovative since childhood and will sustain this habit until my last breath in this attempt I have tried to plant a small seed of Jain Vishwabharti University in this desert with the challenge that it could be possible to grow a garden in this desert and he had a deep attachment with academic world always in his busy schedule wherever he visited to some big cities and wherever there is an university he tried to be there he addressed the professors, lectures and the students in different department of the different universities so it was his keen desire to be active in the academic field also it is from volume 20th Mera Jivan Mera Darshan now I have a question that Acharya Tulsi's personality was very different and the editor's personality was very different Sadhvi Pramkha she is not so open like Acharya Tulsi so at that time it is created dilemma is it possible for her to write the same thing in the same manner how he liked but I don't know this is a question for me and maybe it is a question for further study that someone can do a study is she can do what Acharya Tulsi desired or she can't write what he desired so it is a question autobiography a narrative account of an extended period of someone's life so Acharya Tulsi's life a long life and long life is many events so Sadhvi Pramkha tried to keep attached and she also kept a distance because not analyzing anything else just keeping as it is try to be true to his diaries also no criticism or nothing he put from her own side but I'm thinking to be an insider it is very very difficult task to write something and to keep himself or herself away from that so I think the same question was before Sadhvi Pramkha that she was so close and she was the head nun of 600 nuns of the Tirapan sect so always in the close contact of Acharya Tulsi at that time when she painted this old Meera Jeevan Meera darshan at that time definitely the insider is coming up and she has taken her own feeling inside it because being an insider but editor presented herself that I try to stick to his diaries example from the volume 20th page 237 15th April 1992 Wednesday the program was attended by from Digambar tradition she presented for Murthi Pooja sect war also there like this in this next paragraph he states I'm expressing reverence to Bhagawan Mahavir so it is in the words of Acharya Tulsi here we see that her language is presenting facts and not aiding much in it but her voice is visible in many places in the title itself reflect it is an autobiography but it seems to be more of a submissive tendency of editor as he says I have taken this challenge to be editor of this work only with energy blessed on me by Gurudev so in the preface of volume first she accepted that it is a big challenge for me and it is due to blessing of Acharya Tulsi I'm doing it and the third position not an autobiography autobiography differs from biography not only it's evidently but more subjective narrative point view and but it is inclusiveness and autobiographer cannot recount her or his own death because you can see in the last volume the whole picture of his death is also written in the same voice so it is I think here we can feel that it is not an autobiography but a biography so these three it is a memoir diary autobiography and biography so still it is a point of investigation those who have the proper knowledge of and deep knowledge of this genres and then on this criteria one can say it is an autobiography or biography but I have a little more thank you these volumes each of these volumes containing 300, 400, 350 pieces and just I have taken the first volume and this is divided into the two parts the first chapter described Tulsi's childhood for example the story behind the name of Ladnu he described few pages his hometown and then his family background and specially impact of his mother because his father passed away at very early age and mother was a guardian and it is interesting reading from Nalini Bilbir's article Varni and Gyanmati Mata Ji their life also affected by mothers and mother is the central part of family life and the same thing Aachat Tulsi narrates and the seed of religious activities going to nuns, visiting to monks from the very childhood because mother was widow and she always keep Tulsi with her to take monks place in lectures and different activities so the seed was sown at the early age when he was five or four he used to go with her mother so special impression of mother on him and interesting to note in this part Aachat Tulsi accepted in the page 32 and 33 that when he was a child her sister-in-law given some money oh Tulsi you go to market and bring some nails at the time he brought the nails but the change which was left he kept inside his pocket and after few days he realized oh this is a kind of theft I should not keep this money without informing my sister-in-law and he went to his mother and confessed it ok mother and then mother suggest ok go and written this change to your sister-in-law this incident he wrote in his first part of the biography and the second incident once he wanted to test it the divine beings existence so he went to Bahram's temple and there he stale some coconuts so it is again one incident second incident in his life very clearly he wrote about his weaknesses and this is and the second part as a child monk he initiated under the holy feet of Acharya Kalugini and how he got the training and Guru's love and an environment to start his study because in his early childhood he just learned some tables mathematics but after his initiation he learned Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit and he learned 22,000 slokas by heart and these slokas related to grammar and Prakrit specially Prakrit and Sanskrit because at that time in Tirapanth nobody used Hindi language because Kalugini had the old pattern in his mind so everybody, all monks, nuns and lay followers they used to speak in Marwadi and the place of Sojourn was in Marwadi mainly in Marwadi just the last part of Acharya Kalugini's life he travelled Malwa, Ujjain which is right now MP and at the end of this first volume Acharya Tulsi wrote how he kept belief on me that at the young age of 22 he given me the power transferred as a designating successor of Acharya Kalugini to a young monk so in this part he wrote this the second part it is a part of struggle and the struggle is within the sect and also outside the sect from other Jain sects so he made very clear and in second part he accepted his own mistake in the appointment of the head nun because once he mocked about his guru that he had appointed and Sadvi she is not educated Sadvi Jhamkuji but after few years of his death he appointed his sister as a head nun Sadvi Latanji and at that time one sent Mantri Muni said O Tulsi, Gurudev Tulsi he repeated the same mistake in his biography he accept this and in the third part like this, these volumes and volumes I am not taking all account of it in this small portion but especially in the reference of biographies of Tulsi Acharya Tulsi's biography first occurred in 1966 and written by Acharya Mahapragya Acharya Tulsi Jeevan or Darsan written in Hindi and second biography Dharmachakra Kappravartan when he completed his 50 years of Acharya Srip in 1986 and this is written in Hindi and also translated in English turning the wheel of Dhamma and the third biography written by Sadvi Bramkha in 1998 1998 after the death of Acharya Tulsi it is in Marwadi Tulsi Prabod and the fourth biography which is written by Acharya Mahapragya and it is Tulsi Yasovilas and he designed in three parts but unfortunately Acharya Mahapragya completed the first part of his biography Tulsi Yasovilas and finally he said goodbye to this world so this is still in half way so these four biographies all are published and interestingly I would like to keep Peter's research that biographical account of there is a huge account and systematic research started in 1946 by the order of Acharya Tulsi to Munir Navratanmal and he produced a huge literature 25 part in 30 volumes and these volumes are available and published and here the huge account of from the day one to the last till date monks and nuns saman and samanis all are included in Satsang Samudra so in Tera Panth there are a tradition of biographical writing and autobiographical writing which is a special part of historical genre and it is open that many scholars are here they can take their insight inside it and they can produce something from this vast historical genre thank you