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Appendix. A JAIN KINGS.
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The Jains are celebrated in ancient history and there were many Jain kings in those days. King VAJRA KARAN who ruled in DASHANAGARA (the present MANDESSORE) was a Jain and bowed before none but the jain Gods. It is said that there was a great fight between this Jain king and SINHODAR, the SARVABHAUM king of UJJAIN,, in consequence of the insult which the Jain king offered to the latter by refusing to offer salutation to him, in which SINHODOR was worsted. SHISHUPAL, the ruler of CHANDERI near LALITSUR, was a Jain. GANDHARVASEN and SHRIVARMA, the kings of Ujjain, are described by some authors as being Jains but to me, it is still a question. The VALLABH king KUMARPOL was a great patron of Jainism. Maharaja SampaDI, the greatgrandson of the famous Baudя king ASHOKα had embraced this faith. ASHOKα himself is held by certain scholers to have been a Jain before he was converted to BUDHISM. While writing about the UDAIPUR royal family, Col. Todd says in his Annals of Rajasthan that even uptil now, the Queen of Udaipur receives with great ceremony any Jain ascetic who might happen to visit the city. The origin of this custom was that the famous Rana of Udaipur, Pratab Sinha was assisted by a great Jain, named Bhamasa, with an army of ten thousand men, when the king was in great stress in his
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