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.
Bust of Hemachandra at Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University
Idol of Hemachandra at Jain Center of New Jersey, US
Representative Image of Acharya Hemachandra and Maharaja Kumarpala
A 12th-century manuscript of Hemachandra's Yogasastra in Sanskrit. The text is notable for using 1 mm miniaturized Devanagari script.
The Chaulukya dynasty, also Solanki dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled parts of what are now Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India, between c. 940 CE and c. 1244 CE. Their capital was located at Anahilavada. At times, their rule extended to the Malwa region in present-day Madhya Pradesh. The family is also known as the "Solanki dynasty" in the vernacular literature. They belonged to the Solanki clan of Rajputs.
Chaulukya dynasty
Coin of the Chaulukyas of Anahillapataka, King Kumarapala, c. 1145 – c. 1171.
A 1010 CE copper-plate inscription from the reign of Durlabharaja
The Somnath temple today.
