Some Historical Jaina Kings and Heros

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

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46 . As to King Amoghavarsha's state victories, it is sufficient to say that he was a great warrior, that he offered a feast to Yamaraja on the battlefield and was a great ruler as well, who reinstated the Rastrakuta Empire after setting it free from the clutches of the Chalukyas?. His pious, meritorious deeds earned for him the title of "Atishaya-dhavala." Under his rule trade, education, literature and the social status of his people increased. The great treatises on Jain philosophy, i.e. Dhavala and Jaya-Dhavala' Tikas were compiled during his reign and it is rightly conjectured that Jinasena might have styled his treatise after the "Atishaya-Dhavala" title of Amoghavarsha'.
Jainacharya Ugraditya also wrote his famous work on medicine called "Kalyanakaraka” during the reign of Amoghavarsha, which contains at the end a long discourse on the harm and uselessness of a flesh dieta which the author, true to his Jain feeling and conviction is said to have delivered in the court of that king? It seems probable that the Jain celebrities at the time assembled in the court of Amoghavarsha and imparted religious instruction to him, which lcd him to adopt the life of a Jain Sramana. ·
1. Altekar, loc: cit: pp. 74-75 2. Hiralal, Satakhandagama-Sutra, Introduction. 3. See Sholapur edition.