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JAINA MEN OF ACTION his noble father, Droharagharațța Jinālaya, in the centre of Dorasamudra itself. The stone inscription dated in that year and found in the Pārsvanātha basti at Haļebid, informs us that that Jinālaya which "even Jalajabhava (i.e., Brahmā) could not excel in drawing, carving and moulding, and which hone like the silver mountain (Kailāsa), an ornament to the earth,” was erected as a memorial to Ganga Rāja's death. It was consecrated by the learned Nayakīrti Siddhānta Cakravarti, and attached to the Müla sangha, Desiya gana, Hanasoge baļi, and the Pustaka gaccha.
Further interesting details concerning that Jinātaya and the ruler Vişnuvardhana Deva are given in the same record. The Indrar or priests of the Droharagharațţa Jinālaya which contained the image of Pārsvanātha, took the consecrated food to king Vişnuvardhana Deva, who was then at Bankāpura, at a most opportune moment. It was just then that the Hoysala monarch had slain one of his enemies-Masana. the Kadamba general, and that a son was born to his queen Lakşmi Mahādevī. And, as we related in an earlier connection, king Vişņu "being filled with joy on account of both his victory and the birth of a son, seeing the priests who had brought the sandal water and consecrated food from the consecration of the god Pārśva, he ordered them to approach, and rising to meet them, saluted them with joined hands to his forehead, and took the sandal water and consecrated food, saying, ‘By the merit of the consecration of this god I have obtained both a victory and the birth of a son, and have been filled with joy.' He therefore gave to the god the name of Vijaya Pārśva and to his son the name of Vijaya Nara
1. On Masaņa, read M. A. R. for 1916, p. 52 ; ibid., for ,1931, p. 100; ibid., for 1932, pp. 189-190 ; Moraes, KadambaKula, pp. 128-132.
