# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chavundaraya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:30:45.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chavundaraya"
name: "Chavundaraya"
slug: "chavundaraya"
description: "Cāmuṇḍarāya or Chavundaraya was an Indian Jain Minister. He served in the court of the Western Ganga dynasty of Talakad. A person of many talents, in 981 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, (963–975). Rachamalla IV Satyavakya, (975–986) and Rachamalla V (Rakkasaganga), (986–999)."
tagline: "Military commander, poet and a minister in the court of the Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad (in present day Karnataka, India), Jain devotee"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Frontal_south_eastern_view_of_the_Chavundaraya_Basadi_at_Shravanabelagola.jpg/330px-Frontal_south_eastern_view_of_the_Chavundaraya_Basadi_at_Shravanabelagola.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "940"
deathDate: "989"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             9.910256410256409
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump