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King Nrpatunga Amoghavarsha I (Cir. 815-877), the greatest king of the Rāstrakūta dynasty had is capital at Manyakheta (Malkhed). Disciple of Jinasena he liberally patronized the Digambara sect. Some scholars on the basis of some laudatory verses from the Ganitasāra samgraha and the Yathakhyatacarita of Ainoghavarsha opined that Amoghavarsha adopted muni-di kşā while others do not accept this view as the Diksita name is not known from any sources. Ministers, Bharata and Nanna-Bharaia was the minister of the Rāştrakuța king Kệşņa III (940-968), and his son Nanna, the minister of Krsna III and his brother K bottigadeva (968972). They were the patrons of the great poet Puspadanta, who was a volumnious writer of Apabhramśa poetry. Chāmunda Rāya--The minister and commander-inchief of the Western Ganga kings Mārasimha II, and Rāchamalla of Rajamalla II, Disciple of Ajitasena he erected the images of Gommateśvara and Neminātha and endowed villages yielding 96,000 coins at the feet of Nemichandra for the daily worship of the image of Gaumateśvara.
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Muni RATNA PRABHA VIJAYA-Sramana Bhagavān Mahāvīra. Ahmedabad, 2nd Edition, 1948-51.
(In the year 1941-42, first edition of the four volumes of this book written in English collected from Svetämbara Jain Scriptures and other sources by Muni RATNA PRABHA VIJAYA was published. Instead of four books of the first edition, the second edition comprises of eight books).
The work supplied comprehensive account of the 26 previous Bhavas existences) and the 27th or the last Bhava of Mahāvīra, the 24th Tirthankara. It deals with various subjects relating to Jainism, such as--souls, universe, knowledge, painting, music, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy, etc. It also discusses early history of Jainism, Jainism and democracy; Jainism not a branch of Buddhism; origin of religion ; Jainism and modern science (Physics, sound, Biology).
Vol. I, Part I, 1948.
Contents: The first fifteen previous Bhavas of Mahävira.
Vol. I, Part II. 1948. Sixteenth to twentysixth previous bhavas.
Vol. II, Part I. 1948. (27th Bhava)-Mahāvira's descent from the heaven, dreams of his mother, birth celebration, early life, dikşa, first thirteen years of his ascetic life.
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