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who died leaving widows but no sons He stopped the sale of spirituous liquors and passed laws against gambling and betting
After his conversion to Jainism Kumarapala was filled with a desire to become the Master of the Order In consultation with Hemachandra, he organised a party of pilgrims and at his own expence led it to the holy mount Shatrunjaya Accompanied by his friends and relatives, ministers and merchants monks and nuns he advanced from his capital and travelling by easy stages reached Dhandhuka the birth place of Hema chandra. Thence he proceeded to Shatrunjaya From there he went to Girnar and other holy places of the Jainas in Kathiawad
Kumarapala was a great builder Almost all the Svetambara temples and monuments of unknown ongin are ascribed either to lum or to Samprati, the grandson and successor of Asoka So great an impr ession did the extent and magnificence of his architectural activity make on the popular imagination that tradition credits him with erection of 1440 new temples and the restoration of 16000 decayed ones At Annahilvad he built a temple dedicated to Neminatlia which he in the In his memory of his father, called Tribhuvanavihara days of excle he had once been without food for threa day's A certain lady took pity on him and refreshed him with some eatables When he became emperor he did not forget the graceful act of his benefactress He
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