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not the least is Bhamasha the great Jain minister of Rana Pratap.
BHAMASHA AND RANA PRATAP.
Rana Pratas), the idol of patriotism, is remembered to-day for luis incessant struggle to gain back the motherland and for his vows to lead practically an ascetic life till he succeeded in achieving liis object. Few people know that this hero was so driven by adversity that had it not been for Blainasha his Jain minister who unhesitatingly and in extreme selflessness emptiech liis treasures for the sake of motherland and in fidelity to his king, Rana was but on the point of giving up the struggle. It is really due to want of impartial historians that the great Jain politicians in the history of India have not received their due and have been ignored. There is a long and charming history of Jain ministers in Rajputana as to how they tried to uplold the tottering Rajput clynasties and low far they have succeeded. The sum total is that, had it not been for the heroic efforts of thiese Jain ministers it is very doubtful that there would have been arv Rajput states of importance surviving.
JAIN PREDOMINANCE.
As in Rajputana, so in Cutcli and Kathiawar the Jain ministers have been the happy instruments of saving native states out of complete ruin and effacement. The records of these
