King Samprati
Raja Samprati was born to Kunal and Kanchanmala and was given the throne after Ashok decided that Kunal was not a fit to rule the empire as he was blind and would not be able to rule efficiently. So he decided to give the throne to Dasaratha and then have Samprati succeed him. Once Dasaratha died Samprati came to power and was a strong king. One day he was looking out of his balcony and saw Suhasti Maharaj walking by and felt that he knew him somehow. Samprati remember his past lives and asked the acharya to come see him. The acharya met with Samprati and explained to him that he has a strong attachment to him because he was once his disciple in another life. That once there was a great famine in the city of Kasumbi and that all the laymen were offering food to monks. Samprati in that life was a beggar and he couldn't receive any food because he wasn't a monk. So he took initiation and then received food after becoming a monk. When he was dying his guru had recited the Navkar Mantra and the soul that was to be Samprati left the body of the ailing monk. Raja Samprati was in awe of what occurred and offered the Suhasti his kingdom but Suhasti refused the offer. Suhasti explained to Samprati all about a monk's life and the tenets of the Jain religion. Samprati began propagating Jainism all around the world sending monks into other non-Aryan countries and building shelters and food banks for the needy.
One day he returned home victorious in a great battle. The town and everyone was elated and joyful of the victory. Then when Samprati saw his mother she was sad and upset. He asked her why she was not happy over the victory over the expansion of their kingdom? She told him that the expansion came at the cost of many innocent lives if he would have built jinalays or renovated jinalays that would have pleased her more. So Samprati decided to renovate and build temples all throughout his kingdom. He had a rule that he would not rinse his mouth to prepare to eat until he heard another derasar had been built. In all he has built 125,000 new temples, renovated 36,000 temples, consecrated 12.5 million murtis (idols) representing jinas, and built 95,000 metal (paanch daatu) idols to place in temples.