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(maintainers of the other) ; he who wrestles with them is paradadi-malla (the wrestler with maintainers of the others) ; this name, good men say, is my name ."1 How the astounded monarch honoured him, we do not know; but it is obvious that Paravadimalla must have commanded great respect from him.
Indraraj III was the grandson of Krshna ll and succeeded him. His crowning ceremony (geetha) took place on 24th. Feb. 915 A.D. at Kurandhaka. The King was so much impressed by the auspicious occasion that his liberality knew no bounds-it is said, he gave away 400 villages in donations to religious and needy persons. He ruled for five years and keenly supported Jainism, for the Danavulpadu inscription records that the prosperous Nityavarsha i.e. Indra III had made a stone pedestal of Arhat Shanti, in order that his own desires might be fulfilled."
1. Ep. Car., II. 67. p. 28. 2. JBBRAS, Vol. XVIII, p 253, 257 & 261. 3. Altekar, ibid, p. 312. Prof. B. A. Saletore lowever
identifies Nityavarsla with king Krshna III's younger brother Khottiga Nityavarsha, who seems to have been also, a Jnin by pursuasion. (Med: Jainism, p. 40)
