Alternative spellings of this word include Chamundaraja.

India history and geography

Source: Wikipedia: India History

Chamundaraja (r. c. 996–1008 CE) was an Indian king who ruled parts of present-day Gujarat from his capital at Anahilapataka (modern Patan). He was a member of the Chaulukya (also called Chalukya or Solanki) dynasty. Chamundaraja was the son of the Chaulukya king Mularaja.

According to the 12th century Jain author Hemachandra, Chamundaraja defeated the Lata Chalukya chief Barapa, although other chroniclers attribute this victory to his father Mularaja. According to the 12th century Vadnagar prashasti inscription, a king named Sindhuraja fled with his elephant forces when he saw Chamundaraja’s army at a distance, thus losing his well-established fame. The 14th century Jain chronicler Jayasimha Suri claims that Chamundaraja killed Sindhuraja in a battle.

Hemachandra states that Chamundaraja had three sons: Durlabha-raja, Naga-raja, and Vallabha-raja. According to Hemachandra, Chamundaraja left for a pilgrimage to Varanasi after his retirement. Chamundaraja built Chandanatha and Vachineshwra temples in Anahilapataka (now Patan).

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Cāmuṇḍarāja (चामुण्डराज), son of Vijjarāṇaka, is the name of a feudatory of the Śilāhāra king Cinturāja (i.e. Cittarāja) and is mentioned as the donee of a grant in the “Ciñcaṇī plate of the reign of Cittarāja”. Accordingly, “I, the illustrious Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Cāmuṇḍarāja−having bathed at an excellent holy place... have donated, with great devotion, as a gift free from all taxes, an oil mill together with the oil and oil-cakes produced therein in favour of the Kautuka-maṭhikā...”.

This plate (mentioning Cāmuṇḍarāja) was found together with eight others at Chincaṇī in the Ḍahāṇu tāluka of the Ṭhāṇā District, North Koṅkaṇ, in 1955. The object of the inscription is to record the grant, by Cāmuṇḍarāja, of a ghāṇaka (oil-mill) in favour of the temple Kautuka-maṭhikā of the goddess Bhagavatī at Saṃyāna. The gift was made by pouring out water on the hand of the Svādhyāyika (scholar) Vīhaḍa, on the fifteenth tithi of the dark fortnight (i.e. amāvāsyā) of Bhādrapada in the śaka year 956.

Source: OpenEdition books: Vividhatīrthakalpaḥ (History)

Cāmuṇḍarāja (चामुण्डराज) refers to one of the kings of the Caulukya (Cālukka) dynasty of Gujarat, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—List of the eleven Caulukya kings of which Aṇahilapura was the capital: Mūlarāja, Cāmuṇḍarāja, Vallabharāja, Durlabha, Bhīmadeva, Karṇa, Jayasiṃha, Kumārapāla, Ajayapāla, Bālamūlarāja, Bhīmadeva.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cāmuṇḍarāja (चामुण्डराज):—[=cāmuṇḍa-rāja] [from cāmuṇḍā > cāmuṇḍa] m. Name of several kings, [Inscriptions]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Cāmuṇḍarāja (चामुण्डराज) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Cāmuṃḍarāya.

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Partial matches: Camunda, Raja.

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