Some Historical Jaina Kings and Heros

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

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mission of the King Vishnu made a grant for the worship of the god and food for ascetics. · At the same holy place queen Santal constructed a very elegant and inspiring image of Shanti Jinendra. With her meritorious deeds she earned for herself much praise and was styled "the crest jewel of perfect faith" and “a rampart of the Jain faith." True to her belief in the lina Dharma, she observed sacred manner of Sallekhana and died in A. D. 1131 at Shivaganga.
By his new queen Lakshami, King Vishnu had a son Narasimha, who was crowned from the very day of his birth and succeeded his father when he died in 1141 at Bankapur.” King Narasimha was a pleasureseeking monarch, but was fortunate in having loyal Jain generals, who fought battles for him and maintained the greatness of the Hoysala empire. One of his most capable generals was the Jain commander Hulla, whose intense devotion to the Jain Dharma was really responsible for the devotion which King Narasimha showed to the Jain religion. He visited the Shravana-belagola Tirtha and made a gift of he village Savaneru for the maintenance of the iplendid temple built by his great general Hulla.*
b. Snletore, loc. cit. pp. 165-166.
Rice, loc. cit., p. 102. 3. Saletore, loc. cit. p. 81.