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was an accountant minister and was famous for his liberality... He was a "desire:yielding. gem to the good" (Fefete farafia). ..He patronised the Jain poet Gunavarma?. L
Glorious Nagadeva of Kundi was of great valour”. He was a minister and general and served under his prime minister, the Jain sage muni Chandradeva:
Thus Jainism outshone in the Ratta Kingdom and its influence on the people of all grades of social life was simply that of immense love and piety, buttressed with the sane and just spirit of valour and heroism..
THE SHILAHARA KINGS AND
THEIR GENERALS. · The Shilahara Kings of the Vidyadhara clan of Ksatriyas, were ruling from the 10th to the 13th century A., D., over that tract of country, which falls now under the ambit of modern Belgaum and Kolhapur districts in the Bombay Presidency. They also were the feudatory vassals of the Rashtrakuta monarchs and Krshna l appointed them as rulers of the Konkan country. Later on when the Western Chalukyas came into power, the Shilaharas accepted
1.' Ibid; 2. 'Bhandarkar, Boinbay Gazetteer, Vol. I, pt. II, pp.
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