[Karna, A.D. 1064-1094.] Karna who came to the throne in A.D. 1064 (S. 1120) had a more peaceful reign than his predecessors. He was able to build charitable public works among them a temple called Karna-meru at Anahilaváda. His only war was an expedition against Áshá Bhil, chief of six lákhs [560] of Bhils residing at Áshápallí the modern village of Asával near Ahmadábád. [561] Áshá was defeated and slain. In consequence of an omen from a local goddess named Kochharva, [562] Karna built her a temple in Asával and also built temples to Jayantí Deví and Karnesvara Mahádeva. He made a lake called Karnaságara and founded a city called Karnávatí which he made his capital. Karna had three ministers Muñjála, Sántu, and Udaya. Udaya was a Srímálí Vániá of Márwár, who had settled in Anahilaváda and who was originally called Udá. Sántu built a Jain temple called Sántu-vasahi and Udá built at Karnávatí a large temple called Udaya-varáha, containing seventy-two images of Tirthankars, twenty-four past twenty-four present and twenty-four to come. By different wives Udá had five sons, Áhada or Asthada, Cháhada, Báhada, Ámbada, and Sollá, of whom the last three were half brothers of the first two. [563] Except Sollá, who continued a merchant and became very wealthy, all the sons entered the service of the state and rose to high stations during the reign of Kumárapála. In late life Karna married Miyánalladeví daughter of Jayakesi son of Subhakesi king of the Karnátaka. According to the Dvyásraya a wandering painter showed Karna the portrait of a princess whom he described as daughter of Jayakesi the Kadamba king [564] of Chandrapura [565] in the Dakhan, and who he said had taken a vow to marry Karna. In token of her wish to marry Karna the painter said the princess had sent Karna an elephant. Karna went to see the present and found on the elephant a beautiful princess who had come so far in the hope of winning him for a husband. According to the Prabandhachintámani Karna found the princess ugly and refused to marry her. On this the princess with eight attendants determined to burn themselves on a funeral pyre and Udayámatí Karna's mother also declared that if he did not relent she too would be a sacrifice. Under this compulsion Karna married the princess but refused to treat her as a wife. The minister Muñjála, learning from a kañchukí or palace-servant that the king loved a certain courtezan, contrived that Miyánalladeví should take the woman's place, a device still practised by ministers of native states. Karna fell into the snare and the queen became pregnant by him, having secured from the hand of her husband his signet ring as a token which could not be disclaimed. Thus in Karna's old age Miyánalladeví became the mother of the illustrious Siddharája Jayasimha, who, according to a local tradition quoted by Mr. Forbes, first saw the light at Pálanpur. [566] When three years old the precocious Siddharája climbed and sat upon the throne.