He was lustrated as a kshullaka into the Sangha (holy order) by Devappa (Devakirti) Swami Ji.

Shantisagar ji was born in 1872[1] near Bhoj village in what is now Belgavi district in Karnataka, India.

He then traveled to the Jain holy place, Shravanabelagola, a town in Hassan district, Karnataka, India.

[3] He began a hunger strike to oppose restrictions imposed on Digambar monks by the British Raj.

He has wandered on foot over the length and breadth of India, receiving food offerings but once a day, and then with only his bare hands for a bowl; he has spoken little during daylight hours and not at all after sunset.

[7]Acharya Shantisagar Ji took last breath on 18 September 1955 at 6:50 am at Kunthalgiri, Osmanabad district, Maharashtra, India.

[4][8] Based on the accounts given by Sumeruchandra Diwakar[9] and Dharmachanda Shastri,[10] Shantisagar was born in 1872 to Bhimagauda Patil and Satyavati at Bhoj Village in Belgavi dist., Karnataka, India.

[9] He visited towns including Katni in Madhya Pradesh state, Jabalpur, Sleemanabad, Nohta, Kundalpur and Sagar.

[9] He visited the Digambar Jain Atishay Kshetra Shri Mahaveer Ji temple, a pilgrimage site.

ShantisagarJi visited Jaipur in 1932, Byavur in 1933, Udaipur in 1934, Goral in Gujarat in 1935, Pratapgarh in 1936 and Gajpantha in Maharashtra in 1937.

Around this time, Shri Shantisagar Charitr was written by Muni Kunthusagar in Sanskrit and in Gajpantha, Shantisagarji was given the title, "Charitra Chakravarti".

[9] He visited Goral in 1940, Akluj in 1941, Korochi in 1942, Digraj in 1943, Kunthalgiri in 1944, temple Phaltan in 1945, and Kavalana in 1946.

[9] On 18 September 1955, he completed the practice of naga samadhi, a gradual reducing of intake of fluid and food leading to death.

On the holy mount of Kunthalagiri, in the state of Maharashtra in India, a man of great soul called Shantisagara (Ocean of peace) is ritually fasting to death.

At last, fully conscious and chanting the digamber a litany, he dies in the early morning of September 18.

The holiness and propriety of his life and of the manner of his death are widely known and admired by digambras throughout India.