#Hemachandra

“A Jain monk wrote the only surviving grammar of Apabhraṃśa — the spoken tongue that grew into Gujarati — inside a royal Sanskrit grammar so celebrated the king paraded it on the state elephant; then he talked the next king into laying down the kingdom's knives.”

“One monk wrote his kingdom a complete education — grammars of its languages down to the street speech that would become Gujarati, dictionaries, poetics, a universal history — and then converted its king, turning a medieval state into history's most ambitious experiment in governing by non-violence.”