Question

Name the famous work of Mummadi Someshwara. What is its speciality?

Answer 1

Someshvara III, the third king in this dynasty named after the Hindu god Shiva made numerous land grants to cause of Shaivismand its monastic scholarship.[3] These monasteries in the Indian peninsula became centers of the study of the Vedas and Hindu philosophies such as the Nyaya school.[3]Someshvara III died in 1138 CE, and succeeded by his son Jagadekamalla.[4]

Someshvara was a noted historian, scholar and poet.[1] He authored the Sanskrit encyclopedic text Manasollasa touching upon such topics as polity, governance, astronomy, astrology, rhetoric, medicine, food, architecture, painting, poetry and music – making his work a valuable modern source of socio-cultural information of the 11th- and 12th-century India.[4][5] He also authored, in Sanskrit, an incomplete biography of his father Vikramaditya VI, called Vikramankabhyudaya.[1] His scholarly pursuits was the reason he held such titles as Sarvadnya-bhupa (lit, "the king who knows everything") and Bhulokamala ("the king who is lord of all living beings").

Answer 2

The famous work of Mummadi Someshwara:

• Mummadi Someshwara is a Chalukya ruler and the successor of Vikramaditya VI. He is a great scholar and poet.
• His most famous work Manasollasa is based on the topics related to politics, ecology, astronomy, astrology, medicine, food, poetry, art and architecture, painting and music.
• It is the most important source of historical information until the present time.