Some Historical Jaina Kings and Heros

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

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incessant gifts of food and shelter given to ascetics and pious men. Hearing of its fame, King Kartavirya visited it. The....basadi was adorned with a lofty go pura, elegant female figures and other sculptures and finials set with jewels. On the specified date (A. D. 1165) this Ratta King, made a great of land & dues to Vijayakirti to provide for worship, food for ascetics and temple repairs?."
Kartavirya's son Laksamideva was the last king of the Rattas. His precepter was the gallant hero Muni Chandradeva. Laksamideva, as described in the Kanarese inscription of Saundatti, "of unequalled might, became famous, rivalling and surpassing Kandar pa (cupid) in beauty and the sun in spelndour, the son of the wind (Bhima ) in valour and the lord of Rishis (Chandra) in being the delight of all mankind, the lord (Indra) of the beautiful woman that is the Eastern Region in fortune and Karna in generosity." During his regime Jainism flourished as before.
Like their masters, generals of the Rattas were not only famous for winning laurels on the battlefield, but they tried to outshine in the realm of spirit as well. Buchiraj, Mallikarjuna, Shantinath and
1. Saletore, Med Jainism, p. 99. 2. Burgess, Report of the antiquities of Kathiawada
and Kachcha, p. 223.