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Hemraj Pande (Hemarāja/Hemrāj Pande) (17th century CE) was an Indian author belonging to the Digambara Jain Agrawal merchant caste ^{[1] [2]} & Garg Gotra. ^[3] He was from Agra. ^[4] He had a daughter named Jainulade(Jaini) who came to be mother of another poet legend Bulakidas making Hemraj Bulakis maternal Grandfather. ^[5] He had written commentaries on numerous Jain texts. ^[6] Being a disciple of Rupchand Pande, a thinker who had settled in Agra in 1635 & delivered sermons on Gommatasara. ^{[7] [8]} As a ‘ pande’ – a vernacular form of the Sanskrit paṇḍitā – or ‘ pandit‘, Hemraj could have been a lay Jain administering the temple, appointed by a Bhattaraka. ^[9]

He wrote a commentary on Pravachanasara of Kundakunda in 1652 based on the commentary on Samayasara by Rajmall. ^[6] He also wrote the differences between Jain sects, Digambara and Śvetāmbara, in Chaurasi Bol (Eighty-Four Disputes) in the same year. ^[7] He wrote these texts on the request of Kanvarpal or Kaurnpal of Agra. ^[7] Many of his other works ,apart from the ones in the list, are also archived & can be found in some of the religious book archives of North India. ^[10] Hemraj was a close friend of Kaurapal or Kunvarapal, who is mentioned by Banarsidas in his autobiography, the Ardha-kathānaka. ^[11] Surprisingly, Banarsidas does not include Hemraj among the prominent Digambara scholars in Agra. ^[12] Hemraj is first mentioned by Hirananda, who describes him as ‘wise and cultivated’ in his Samavaraṇavidhāna. ^[13]

He wrote some original works in Brajbhasha. ^[14] He also translated Bhaktamara Stotra, a sixth century Jain composition, of Manatunga. ^[14] This was done in the style of translation of Kalyanamandir stotra's by Banarsidas. ^[14] He seems to have specialised in writing commentaries on texts by other scholars.

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• Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler, eds. (1981), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India, Open Book Publishers, ISBN  978-1-78374-105-2
• "Karma-prakr̥ti". Jainpedia. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
• Digital Library Of India, Cdac Noida (2006). Kavibar Bularvichand Bulakidas And Hemraaj (1983) Ac 6757.

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