Dravya Sangraha

Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, Saratchandra Ghoshal
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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INTRODUCTION
In Vâhuvali Charitra we composed by Muni Nemichandra. read that Nemichandra, belonging to the Desîya Gana, accompanied Chamunda Râya and his mother when they started to see the image of Gom.atcśvara at Paudanapura. Further, that Nemichandra also dreamt that there was an image of Gommatesvara on the Vindhyagiri, and that Chamunda Raya, after establishing the image, offered villages yielding a revenue of ninety-six thousand coins at the feet of Nemichandra for the daily worship and festivals of Gommatesvara. †
That Nemichandra was revered by Chamunda Raya appears from the following verse in an inscription dated about 1530 A. 1., engraved in the enclosure of Padmavati temple in Nagar Taluq, Shimoga District, Mysore:
" त्रिलोकसार- प्रमुख...
भुवि नेमिचन्द्रः । fania #zıfan-adĤta: angozzanfdia-41999: ||”
i. e., "The author of) Trilokasâra and other (works).... .Nemichandra, the Saiddhântika Sârvabhauma (the Paramount Lord of those versed in the Siddhântas) shines in this world, his lotus-feet worshipped by Châmunda-raja." Though a fragment of this verse is effaced, the meaning is quite clear. The Saiddhantika Sarvabhauma is a synonym of the epithet 'Siddhanta-chakravartti," generally applied to Nemichandra. ન^^ “ ત ય
Nemichandra himself, in his work entitled Gommatasâra, has praised Gommata Râya or simply Râya which, as we have shown X before (see page ), is but another name of Chamunda Râya. In the eulogistic verses, Nemichandra has mentioned that Ajitasena was the
* " दव्वसंगह मिणं मुणिणाहा दोससंचयचुदा सुदपुण्या | सोधयंतु तगुसुत्तधरेण गमिचंद मुणिणा भणियं जं ॥
† Vide:
[Dravya-samgraha, verse 58.]
“भास्वद्देशीगणाग्रेसररुचिरसिद्धान्तविन्नेमिचन्द्र - श्रीपादाग्रे सदा षण्णवतिदशशतद्रव्यभूग्रामवय्यान् । दत्वा श्रीगोमटेशोत्सव सवननित्यार्चना वैभवाय श्रीमच्चामुण्डराजा निजपुरमथुरां संजगाम क्षितीशः ॥”
[Vâhuvali Charitra, verse 61.] Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. VIII, Nagar Taluq, Inscription No. 46.