________________
108
MEDIÆVAL JAINISM and (then) completely killed all the enemies.1 Hence both in the interests of the State as well as his own, Cāmunda Rāya had to punish Caladanka Ganga. And for this victory over Madurācaya, Cāmunda Rāya received the title Samara Paraśurāma. We may add here that in the same Kannada work given above, Cāmunda Rāya tells us that because of his victory over a company of wrestlers, he was given the biruda of Pratipakşarākşasa, and for destroying heroes, Bhatamāri, and for being the crest-jewel of warriors, Subhatacūļāmaņi.
The other side of this celebrated warrior is gleaned from the same Kannada work as well as from inscriptions. The Cāmundarāyapurāņa relates that Cāmunda Rāya from his never uttering an untruth even in jest, received the title Satya Yudhiştira, from his steadfastness to good morals, the title Guņavaňkāva, from his unswerving self-sacrifice the biruda Samyaktva-ratnākara, and from his never having coveted the wealth and wives of others, saucābharana. He seems to have possessed also the titles Gunaratnabhūşana and Kavijanasekhara.3
General Cāmunda was the personification of liberality. It was because of his unparallelled benevolence that his royal master gave him the iitle of Rāya. His preceptor was the celebrated Ajitasena about whom we have narrated a few details in the previous pages. This is proved by epigraphs and his own work Cāmundarāyapurāņa. But he seems to
1. E. C. II, 281, p. 127 2. Ibid., Intr. 45, Kavicarite, I, p. 47.
3. Kavicarite, I, pp. 46-47. He seems to have had also the name Anņa (lit. brother), obviously because of his affection and generosity.
4. Ibid, p. 46. 5. Ibid., p. 46.
