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... (Holy Admin Shrine of Sri Mahaytra Svame.
Outside the area of the Vimala Vasahi and on one side of the Hasti-Shālā is a small shrine dedicated to Mahāvīra. But it is not known when and by whom this shrine or the above-mentioned porch were erected. However, walls of the shrine and the porch nearby ( noted above ) show names of architects painted-on them in V. S. 1821, which fact proves that both the structures must have been erected before V. S. 1821 and after V. S. 1639when Hirasaubhagya Mahākāvya (referred to above ) was composed.
The small shrine of Mahavira is a simple structure of a late date, having Mahāvira as the mülanāyaka with nine more images of different Tirthaikaras enshrined in it.
Kavadi. Kavaời was offered the post of the chief-minister which he accepted even though he saw ill omens. After his new appointment, Kavadi returned home with proper pomp due to the minister-in-chief, but that same night Ajayapāla arrested him under false charges and ultimately ordered that he should be killed in boiling oil. It was Ajayapāla's malign and hatred towards Jainism that was responsible for this tragic end of the great minister. Such atrocities on the part of Ajayapāla precipitated his own end after a short span of only three years' rule (see, Prabandha-Chintamani, Simghi series, p. 96, Rāsamālā, Gujarāti ed., p. 310.).
1 See p. 82, above,
