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'''Vanaraja''' ([[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration|IAST]]: Vanarāja Cāvaḍā) was the
==Life==
===Early life===
Kṛishṇabhaṭṭa’s (also known as Kṛṣṇakavi) ''Ratnamālā'' ({{circa|1230 CE}}) says that in 695/696 CE ([[Samvat]] 752) Jayaśekhara, the Cāvaḍā
▲Kṛishṇabhaṭṭa’s (also known as Kṛṣṇakavi) ''Ratnamālā'' ({{circa|1230 CE}}) says that in 695/696 CE ([[Samvat]] 752) Jayaśekhara, the Cāvaḍā Gurjar king of [[Panchasar|Pañcāsara]], a village (in modern-day [[Patan district]], Gujarat), was attacked by the Chaulukya king Bhūvaḍa of Kalyāna-kaṭaka in Kanyākubja (probably [[Kanauj]]) and slain by Bhūvaḍa in battle. Before his death Jayaśekhara, he sent his pregnant wife Rūpasundarī to the forest in charge of her brother Surapāla, one of his chief warriors who now turned to banditry. After Jayaśekhara’s death on the battlefield, Rūpasundarī gave birth to a son named Vanarāja. This tradition is of dubious validity, as there is no city called Kalyāna-kaṭaka near Kanauj, and the [[Chalukya dynasty|Cālukya]] capital of Kalyāṇa in the Deccan was only founded in the 11th century, about 250 years after the events are stated to have taken place. Additionally, there is no known king named Bhūvaḍa, although some scholars guess that it may refer to the Cālukya king Vijayāditya, who was also known as Bhuvanāśraya.<ref name="GBP">{{cite book|editor=James Macnabb Campbell|editor-link=James Macnabb Campbell|title=History of Gujarát|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm|series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency|volume=I. Part I.|year=1896|publisher=The Government Central Press|pages=149–156|chapter=I. THE CHÁVAḌÁS (A. D. 720–956.)}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>{{sfn|Cort|2001|p=35}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Choudhary |first=Gulab Chandra |title=Political History of Northern India: from Jain Sources (c. 650 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) |publisher=Sohanlal Jaidharma Pracharak Samiti |year=1963 |location=203-204}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bhati |first=Sushil |title=Huna origin of Gurjara clans |url=https://www.academia.edu/es/30681314/Huna_origin_of_Gurjara_clans}}</ref>
[[Merutunga|Merutuṇga]], the author of the ''Prabandhachintāmaṇi'', tells a story that Rupasundarī was living in Pañcāsara and had placed her infant son in a hammock on a tree, when a Jain monk named Śīlaguṇasūri who was passing by noticed that the tree's shade was not bending, which he believed was a sign of the boy's role to be a propagator of Jainism. The story adds that a nun named Vīramatī brought up the boy whom the monks called Vanarája, literally "the forest king". When eight years old, the monk told Vanarāja to protect his place of worship from rats. The boy’s skill in shooting rats and his horoscope convinced the monk he was not fit to be a monk but was worthy of a kingdom. He therefore returned the boy to his mother. These details seem invented by the Jain writers themselves. No mention of any such story occurs in the ''Ratnamálá''.{{efn-ua|In the ''Satyapurakalpa'' of his ''Tírthákalpa'', Jinaprabhasúri tells an almost identical story of another king.}}<ref name="GBP"/>{{sfn|Cort|2001|p=35}}{{Sfn|Choudhary|1963|p=202-203}}
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* {{citation |last=Cort |first=John E. |author-link=John E. Cort |title=Jains in the World : Religious Values and Ideology in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZk-4HOMzsoC |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2001 |isbn=0-19-513234-3 }}
* {{citation |last=Cort |first=John E. | author-link=John E. Cort |title=Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History |url={{Google books|nII8DwAAQBAJ|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2010 |isbn=9780195385021 }}
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