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CXIV
Kavyanusasan
- the twenty -- third Tīrthamkara - brought from Panchasara was consecreted. According to the Prabandhachintāmaņi, the king placed his own statue in the pose of worship in this temple. The statue printed in the Rasmala is supposed to be this statue. Its authenticity, however, is doubtful. Arisimha also refers to this temple as if it were a mountain. Vanarāja built also another temple in honour of the goddess Kanteşvarī or Kanthesvarī known as Kantesvarī-prāsāda.
The Prabandhachintāmaņi says that Vanarāja reigned for more than 59 years and lived for 109 years.
We have no information as to the extent of his dominions.
According to our three authorities on the Chāpotkata dynasty, the Sukstasamkīrtana, the P. C. and the Vichārașrepī, Vanarāja was succeeded by his son Yogarāja. In his reign, ships of a foreign king laden with rich cargo were driven by storm to Somanātha Pattana in Saurāshțra. His son Kshemarāja requested the king to permit him to take possession of these foreign ships. There were ten thousand horses of the Tejas breed, eighteen elephants and crores of other things in the ships. "They will carry all these things to their country through our country. If your Majesty orders, the whole of it will be brought here.” (P.C.p.14)
Yogarāja, however, forbade it. But Kshemarāja and his younger brother, thinking that the king had grown senile took passession of this foreign property as it was being carried through the boundary of their kingdom. This may be the boundary between Kathiawad and main – land Gujarata. When Yogarāja heard this news, he was deeply affected by this misdeed
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