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. General Boppana served under the Shilahara King Vijayaditya ( 1140 to 1160 A. D. ). In the Kidarpur inscription it is stated that "Boppana was to Vijayaditya what Garuda was to Hari, what Maruti was to Rama and what Vasant was to Kama. He was the greatest hero in destroying his enemies on the battlefield." He was entrusted with the construction work of a temple, which he could not finish.
Laksamidhara or Laksamideva was another general of note of Vijayaditya. He protected well the country of his lord and was also a man of religious and literary taste. He patronised the Knarese poet Karnaparya, who composed the 'Neminatha-purana' at his request, In it he praised Laksamidhara as the “fittest person to bear the burden of management of the kingdom, the first among the wise, a great hero, famous in the world, the son-in-law of Gopaya and the store of Samyaktya. It was he who caused this poetry to be written for the welfare of the public."2 His father Govardhan was the chief of the hill tort Kilekala and he had three brothers, namely Vijayaditya, Vardhamana and Shantiz who were always to be found engaged in observing the 1. Ibid. 2. Kundanagar, loc. cited, pp. 11-12.
