Hemachandra was a 11-12th century Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist.
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Bust of Hemacandra at Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University
Idol of Hemacandra at Jain Center of New Jersey, US
A 12th-century manuscript of Hemacandra's Yogasastra in Sanskrit. The text is notable for using 1 mm miniaturized Devanagari script.
Hemacandra's grammar text Siddhahemashabdanushasana in Sanskrit
Worship of Parshvanatha, Folio from the SiddhahemashabdanushasanaAcademics born in the 1080s 6
About this person
Hemachandra was a 11-12th century Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gained the title kalikālasarvajña, "the knower of all knowledge in his times" and is also regarded as father of the Gujarati language.
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1088 to 1172 · aged 84
Written about in
21 languages
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