Chavundaraya

Chavundraya or Chamundaraya was an Indian military commander, architect, poet and minister. He served in the court of the Western Ganga dynasty of Talakad . A person of many talents, in 982 he commissioned the construction of the monolithic statue of Bahubali, the Gomateshwara, at Shravanabelagola, an important place of pilgrimage for Jainism. He was a devotee of the Jain Acharya Nemichandra and Ajitasena Bhattaraka and was an influential person during the reigns of Marasimha II Satyavakya, . Rachamalla IV Satyavakya, and Rachamalla V , .

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