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GANADHARS AND ACHARYAS
12 Ächärya Hemchandra
Ächärya Hemchandra was born in 1088 A.D. in the Modha Vanik (merchant) caste in the town of Dhandhuka, sixty miles from the city of Amdavad in Gujarat State, India. His parents were Chachadev and Pähini. While Pähini was pregnant, she had a beautiful dream. She narrated her dream to Jain Ächärya Devasuri who was in Dhandhuka at that time. The Ächärya predicted that Pähini would give birth to a son who would make great progress in the areas of spiritual knowledge, conduct, and logic. When her son was born, she named him Chängdev.
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