Hemachandra
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Hemachandra () was a 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.
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- Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in metabolic disorders — A step towards mitochondria based therapeutic strategies
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- Mitochondria are a direct site of Aβ accumulation in Alzheimer's disease neurons: implications for free radical generation and oxidative damage in disease progression
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- Role of Glutamate and NMDA Receptors in Alzheimer’s Disease
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- Amyloid beta, mitochondrial dysfunction and synaptic damage: implications for cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease
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- Impaired mitochondrial dynamics and abnormal interaction of amyloid beta with mitochondrial protein Drp1 in neurons from patients with Alzheimer's disease: implications for neuronal damage
· 2011 · cited 735x
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- Acharya
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- Hemachandra
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- Drawing of Hemchandra based on Vikram Samvat 1294 palm leaf
- Religious biography.religion
- Jainism
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- Śvētāmbara
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- Acharya Hemchandra Suri
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- Changadeva
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- (see notes)
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- Dhandhuka
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- Anhilwad Patan
- Religious biography.parents
- Chachinga, Pahini
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- Somchandra
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- Devchandrasuri
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- Khambhat
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- Suri
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- date of birth
- 1088-00-00
- date of death
- 1173-00-00
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- Hemchandra
- name in native language
- હેમચંદ્રાચાર્ય
- birth name
- Cangadeva
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20 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Hemacandra and Siddharaja
- Hemacandra and Kumārapāla
- Death
- Works
- Jain philosophy
- Grammar
- Politics
- Poetry and Poetics
- Lexicography
- Prosody
- Mathematics
- Other works
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Hemachandra () was a 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.
Born as Caṅgadeva, he was ordained in the Śvetāmbara school of Jainism in 1110 and took the name Somacandra. In 1125 he became an adviser to King Kumārapāla and wrote Arhannīti, a work on politics from Jaina perspective. He also produced Triśaṣṭi-śalākā-puruṣacarita (“Deeds of the 63 Illustrious Men”), a Sanskrit epic poem on the history of important figures of Jainism. Later when he was consecrated as ācārya, his name was changed to Hemacandra.