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that he was often putting his Yuvaraja or the ministry in charge of the administration, in order to pass some days in retirement and contemplation in the company of his Jaina gurus."
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Inspite of this, it may be noted that Amoghavarsha was also a devotee of the Brahmanical goddess Mahalakshmi in order to please whom he cut one of his fingers so that she may avert a calamity that was to befall him.351
Krshna II, another king of the Räṣṭrakūtas, had Gunabhadra, the compiler of the last five chapters of Adipurana, as his preceptor.352 The same king gave a grant to the Jaina temple at Mulgund.353
Indra III, the successor of Krshna II, was also a patron of Jainism, as is evidenced by his building a stone pedestal for the bathing ceremony of Santinätha,354
The last king of the dynasty, Indra IV, is said to have accepted death. in the typically Jaina fashion called Sallekhanä (i.e., fast unto death),355
Besides these, we come across other kings in this dynasty who were influenced by Jaina tenets. For instance, the Kadaba copper-plate dated S. 735, says that king Prabhutavarsha (i.e., Govinda III) on the request of one Cākirāja, granted the village of Jalamangala to a Jaina monk Arkakirti on behalf of the temple of Jinendra at Silagrama, in remuneration for his having warded off the evil influence of Saturn from Vimaladitya, the governor of Kunungil District.356
Even the feudatories of the Raṣṭrakūṭas were influenced by Jainism. inasmuch as the Raṭṭas of Saundatti,357 Bankeya the governor of Banawasi358 and his son, and Srivijaya,359 a general of Indra III-all these were patrons of Jainism.
This royal patronage did not result simply in temple-building and grants of land. Far more important than that was the rise of a number of Jaina scholars who wrote masterly works on Logic and enriched various
350. ALTEKAR, op. cit., p. 89.
351. Sanjan Copper-plates, E.I., Vol. XVIII, p. 248; ALTEKAR, op. cit., p. 88.
352. JBBRAS, XXII, p. 85.
353. Ibid., X, p. 192.
354. ASR., 1905-6, pp. 121-2.
355. E.C., ii, No. 133; also I.A., XXIII, p. 124.
356. E.I., Vol. iv, p. 340.
357. JBBRAS, 10, 194.
358. Ibid., vi, p. 29; KIELHORN's List, No. 74. 359. E.I., X, p. 149.
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