He served as minister for peace and war and chief judge in the court of Harisimhadeva who was the last King of the Karnat dynasty of Mithila.
[3] He was the cousin of Jayadatta who was the grandfather of Vidyapati who worked in the court of the Oiniwar dynasty a century after Candesvara's time.
Candesvara was also the grandson of another scholar, Devāditya Ṭhakkura who was described as a "minister for War and Peace" in the court of the Karnat dynasty.
[5] Primary sources from the time describe him as a great diplomat and a successful minister cum commander who participated in battles against mlecchas (possibly referring to Muslim invaders).
He was also described as having rescued the earth from being flooded by Mlechchhas (possibly by defeating some Tughlaq generals)[6] as well as leading a successful military expedition to Nepal where he is said to have distributed gold equal in weight to himself on the banks of the Bagmati River in 1314.