________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir (xxvii) From the discussion made above, it may be concluded that Narasimha was an erndite and versatile scholar and thorough master of the different branches of Smrti on which he wrote. Late M. M. Chakravarti aptly remarks alout him. 'In fact he brings considerable knowledge to bear upon each subject and takes considerable pains in elucidating the disputed points by gathering the various authorities and by attempting to recorcile or explain the discrepancies found (60). He can stand comparison with Hemzdri, Madhavacharya Chandesvara, Raghu nandana and others and as such he may rightly be regarded as one of the great Dharmasastra-writers of India. GAJAPATI RAMACHANDRA DEVA: Soon after the Muslim conquest of Orissa on the death of Gajapati Mukunda Deva, the last powerful Hindu sovereign in 1568, Ramachandra Deva, the son of Janardana Vidyadhara, the prime-minister of the four Bhoi Rulers of Cuttack (1535-1559) carved out a small independent state with the fort of Khurda as its capital. He is regarded as a National hero in Orissa because he re-installed the images of Jagannatha Balabhadra and subhadra in their temple at Puri and revived their worship, to the great joy and inspiration of the entire Hindu community, within a decade of the historic sacrilege of Kalapahar, the Muslim general, who on his conquest of the country, fluing the image into the fire and burnt it and afterwards cast into the sea (61). For this noble achievement he was honoured with title of afwata EU FT by the leaders o the nation, which is stated in the temple chronicale called Madalspanji ((2). This statement is corroborated by an unpublished Sanskrit drama called TENTOTTartasafran written by Ramachandra (63) and Fanta AETETA by post Haladhara Misra (C4). Ramachandra Deva was not on y remembered by his posterity for the foundation of a powerful Hindu state, revival of Jagannatha (60) [61] (62) [63] [61] J. A. S. Bengal Vol. LXVI, 1897 No. 4 p. 340. Ain-i-Akbari Vol. 11 p 128 Printed in Oriya characters From its manuscrips preserved in the Orissa State Museum, Quoted -do -do For Private and Personal Use Only
