This famous Jaina monk and scholar wrote extensively and in depth in many different fields. He is perhaps the single most important literary figure of twelfth century India. His biography see Buhler 1889. He was born in Ḍhunaka near Āhmedabad. The famuly guru devacandra took the boy at the age of five and entered him in the jaina monastery at Cambay. Later he was patronised by teh learned and catholic minded cālukya king of Saurāṣṭra, Jayasiṃha Siddharāja (1094-1143). It was this king who asked Hemacandra to compose an original grammar. He produced śabdānuśasana and two commentaries on it.