 He belonged to a merchant class named Bisa Oswal.He was initiated as a monk by a Sthanakvasi Acarya Ragunathji in 1751.Upon reading the scriptures, he found that the order of monks have wandered away from true teachings of Jainism; Ragunathji seconded the same but was unwilling to bring the same in the sect as they were hard to follow by the other monks.