Chamundaraya was the creator of the famous Gomateshwara statue and a devotee of Acharya Nemichandra. Gomateshwara is a monolithic statue standing at 60 feet above a hill in a place called Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India. ...
According to Chamundarayapuran (978 AD) he was a Brahmakshatra. He was a minister and commander of Marsingh II and Rachmall IV. He fought western Chalukya, Nolambas and Bijjals to preserve the Ganga territory. He was awarded several titles of valour. As per Jain Scriptures, Bahubali (also known as Gommateshvara) was the son of Tirthankara Lord Rishabha. ...
Chamundaraya wrote Charitrasara, Trishashti-LaksanPurana and other books. He was a disciple of Nemichandra Siddhanta-Chakravarti. He also built the Chamundaraya Basadi on Chandragiri Hill of Shravanabelagola. His son Jinadevan also built a Jain temple. Chamundaraya supported the famous Kannada Poet Ranna. The statue of Gomatheswara dates from 978-993 AD. Shravanabelagola is a city located in the Hassan district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. ... Kannada - aptly described as sirigannada (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people. ...
Chandragiri also has a famous temple built by Chamundaraya, who was a disciple of Acharya Nemichandra Siddhanta-chakravarti.
The Vindhyagiri hill is home to a thousand year-old gigantic 17.38 meter high monolithic stone statue of the Bhagavan Gomateshwara Bahubali, considered to be the world's largest, built by Chamundaraya, a general of king Gangaraya.
Every 12 years, thousands of devotees congregate here to perform the Mahamastakabhisheka, a spectacular ceremony where the thousand-year-old statue is anointed with milk, curds, ghee, saffron and gold coins.
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