Some Historical Jaina Kings and Heros

Author(s): Kamtaprasad Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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of Palasika and granted specified land to it. These facts vouchsafe the great martial spirit endowed with the purity of the heart and religious feryor of King Mrageshavarma.
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His son Ravivarma succeeded him quite young and ruled for sometime under the protection of his uncle Mandhatrivarma. Thereafter he solely assumed the royal power and ruled nearly for half a century. He was the last great King of the Kadamba family and his long rule was a prosperous one. His wars were many and arduous. The mighty King Ravi slow shri Vishnuvarma and Chandanda, the lord of Kanchi." Like his father he also "continued the wisc policy to maintain the Jina Dharma". In order to further the cause of Jainism, King Ravivarma passed a law to the effect that" the glory of Jinendra, (thc festival of) which lasts for eight days, should be celebrated regularly every year at the full moon of (thc month ofKartika from the revenues of that village (Purukhetaka given to Damakirti's mother by king Mrgeshavarma); that ascetics should be supported during the four months of the rainy season; that the learned men, the chief of whom was the world renowned Kumaradatta who was always cngaged in picty and penance and whose Sangha was his authority for what he did, should according to just