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हेमचन्द्र (hemacandra)

 
Capeller Eng
English
हेमचन्द्र
m.
N.
 of a king & a celebrated scholar.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
हेमचन्द्र hemacandra
adj.
 decorated with a golden crescent
Monier Williams Cologne
English
हेम—चन्द्र
mfn.
 decorated with a g° crescent (as a chariot),
R.
हेम—चन्द्र
m.
N.
 of a king (son of Viśāla), ib.
Pur.
of a celebrated Jaina author (pupil of Deva-candra Sūri and teacher of king Kumāra-pāla
he lived between 1089 and 1173
A.
 D. and is the author of a great many works,
esp.
 of the Anekārtha-keśa, the Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, the Uṇādi-sūtra-vṛtti, the Deśī-nāmamālā, a Saṃskṛt and Prākṛt grammar
&c.
 )
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
हेमचन्द्र pupil of Devacandra Sūri, teacher of king Ku-
mārapāla, was born in 1092 and died in 1173:
Anekārthakośa or Anekārthasaṃgraha.
Anekārthaśeṣa.
Abhidhānacintāmaṇi and C..
Alaṃkāracūḍāmaṇi or Kāvyānuśāsana and vṛtti.
Uṇādisūtravṛtti.
Chandonuśāsana and vṛtti.
Deśīnāmamālā or Deśīśabdasaṃgraha and vṛtti.
Dhātupāṭha and vṛtti.
Dhātupārāyaṇa and vṛtti.
Dhātumālā.
Nighaṇṭuśeṣa.
Balābalasūtrabṛhadvṛtti.
Bālabhāṣāvyākaraṇasūtravṛtti (?).
Vibhramasūtra, hardly by him.
Śabdānuśāsana and vṛtti.
Śeṣasaṃgrahanāmamālā and Śeṣasaṃgrahasāro-
ddhāra.
He is quoted in the Ārhatadarśana of the Sarva-
darśanasaṃgraha Oxf. 247^b. One poor strophe
of his has found its way into Sbhv.
हेमचन्द्र
Liṅgānuśāsana.
हेमचन्द्र
Ekākṣaranāmamālā.
Abhyankara Grammar
English
हेमचन्द्र a Jain sage and scholar of remarkable erudition in the reli- gious works of the Jainas as also in several Shastras. He was a resi- dent of Dhandhuka in Gujarat, who, like Sankarācārya took संन्यास- दीक्षा at a very early age and wrote a very large number of original books and commentaries, the total number of which may well nigh exceed fifty, during his long life of eighty-four years ( 1088 to ll 2 ). He stayed at Anhilavala- Pattana in the North Gujarat and was patronised with extreme re- verence by King Kumarapala who in fact, became his devoted pupil. Besides the well-known works on the various Shastras like Kavyanusasana, Abhidhanacint- amani, Desinamamla, Yogasastra, Dvyasrayakavya, Trisastisalakapu- rusacarita and others which are well-known, he wrote a big work on grammar called सिद्धहेम- चन्द्र by him, but popularly known by the name हेमव्याकरण or हैमशब्दानुशासन The , work consists of eight books or Adhyayas, out of which the eighth book is devoted to prakrit Grammar, and can be styled as a Grammar of all the Prakrit dialects. The Sanskrit Grammar of seven chapters is based practically upon Panini's Astadhyayi, the rules or sutras referring to Vedic words or Vedic affixes or accents being entirely omitted- The wording of the Sutras is much similar to that of Panini
at some places it is even identical. The order of the treat- ment of the subjects in the सिद्धहैम. शब्दानुशासनमृत्र is not, however, simi- lar to that obtaining in the Asta- dhyayi of Panini. It is some- what topicwise as in the Katantra Vyakarana. The first Adhyaya and a quarter of the second are devoted to Samjna, Paribhasa and declension
the second pada of the second Adhyaya is devoted to karaka, while the third pada of it is devoted to cerebralization and the fourth to the Stripratyayas.The first two Padas of the third Adhyaya are devoted to Samasas or compound words, while the last two Padas of the third Adhyaya and the fourth Adhyaya are devoted to conjuga- tion The fifth Adhyaya is devoted to verbal derivatives or krdanta, while the sixth and the seventh Adhyayas are devoted to forma- tions of nouns from nouns, or taddhita words. On this Sabda nusasana, which is just like Panini's Astadhyayi, the eighth adhyaya of Hemacandra being devoted to the grammar of the Arsa language similar to Vedic grammar of Panini, Hemacandra has himself written two glosses which are named लधुवृति and वृहृदवृत्ति and the famous commentary known as the Brhannyasa. Besides these works viz the हैमशब्दानुशासन, the two Vrttis on it and the Brha- nnyasa, he has given an appendix viz the Lingnusasana. The Gra- mmar of Hemacandra, in short, introduced a new system of gram- mar different from, yet similar to, that of Panini, which by his fol- lowers was made completely similar to the Paniniya system by writing works similar to the Sid- dhantakaumudi, the Dhatuvrtti, the Manorama and the Paribhasen- dusekhara.
पुराणम्
English
हेमचन्द्र / HEMACANDRA. A King, son of King viśāla and father of sucandra. (bhāgavata, 9th skandha).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
हेमचन्द्रः,
पुं,
 अभिधानचिन्तामणिनामकोष-कर्त्ता । यथा, --“सानेकार्थनाममालात्मकः कोषवरः शुभः ।हेमचन्द्रप्रणीताभिधानचिन्तामणिर्म्मणिः ॥
”इति तस्य सूचीकारश्लोकः ॥
स्वर्णमयशशी च । सोणार चाद इति भाषा ॥
Capeller
German
हेमचन्द्र
m.
 N. eines Gelehrten.