The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (978 page)

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Hém
dr
.
A learned scholar and a minister of the Y
dava kings of Deogir
near Aura
g
b
d, 1260–71. He possessed great powers of organization and a wide outlook directed towards the many-sided improvement of the people. He employed many scholars to prepare a compendium of religious observances, entitled
Ch
turvarga-chint
ma
. He also wrote the history of the Y
dava rulers, entitled
Y
dava-Prashast
. He was put to death by R
machandra Y
dava about 1272 CE.

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