Hemachandra
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12th-century Jain scholar, poet, writer, mathematician and polymath
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
