Hemachandra
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title:
Hemachandra
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Hemachandra was a 12th century Indian Jain saint, 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 father of the Gujarati language. Born as Changadeva, he was ordained in the Śvētāmbara school of Jainism in 1110 and took the name Somachandra. In 1125 he became an adviser to King Kum
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12th-century Jain scholar, poet, writer, mathematician and polymath
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemachandra
date created:
2004-11-10T18:34:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:56:58Z
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